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A new adventure
No full textThird year came around in the blink of an eye. Before I knew it, the Christmas holidays were here and, in the new year, the university had put on a recruitment day for prospective ambulance services to come in to talk to students. Over the two recruitment days, I heard pitches from most ambulance trusts across the UK and Wales. The Trust I carried out my placement with was North West Ambulance Service (NWAS), with other contenders being East Midlands and Yorkshire. Following this, I completed an elective placement with London Ambulance Service (LAS) (Sofield, 2023). While this was with advanced paramedic practitioners in urgent care, it gave me a taste of London Ambulance Service (LAS) as a whole, which sparked an interest in potentially moving and working for them in the future. Abstract published with permission
Never struggle alone
No full textThis shift started like every other and after a couple of jobs, we were on our way to hospital for a category 2 interfacility transfer. However, no less than a mile away from our last job, the stand down alert came through as we were changed to a category 1. The sat nav re-routed to the new location as my crew mate read out the words no one wants to hear: 'Katy, it’s a paediatric arrest'. What went through my mind at that moment is not for the printed page, but a gamut of emotions was flowing. Multiple alerts were pinging through, and control was radioing us. Abstract published with permissio
To err is an opportunity
No full textOverall, this summer has been a good one. I re-started scuba diving. Now that I have a steady income, I can take up an old hobby. I have rekindled my love for the water and being under water – though, at 17˚C, the UK waters are a tad colder than the lovely 28˚C waters of the Dominican Republic I visited in March. July also saw graduation. Despite finishing university in September 2023, graduation was held in July 2024. It was lovely to spend a week back in the North of England, seeing old mentors and friends. During graduation, I had the opportunity to speak with my tutors that had moved on to different pastures. It was lovely to see them and tell them about my adventures in London.However, the week before graduation, while on a day shift, I made my first major error. I attended to a patient who was fitting. In the London Ambulance Service (LAS), we administer Midazolam to assist in terminating seizure activity. Abstract published with permission
Baptism of fire
No full textHaving spent 5 weeks on operational placement, Katy Sofield describes her ‘baptism of fire’. Abstract published with permission
Not a dull moment
No full textHaving now become an NQP2, Katy Sofield reflects on her journey since joining the London Ambulance Service and shares her most memorable recent patient experiences. Abstract published with permission
Learning curves
No full textKaty Sofield describes intense learning curves as she prepares to become operational Abstract published with permissio
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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