270 research outputs found
Overcoming difficult conversations in clinical supervision
No full textBrett Williams,1 Christine King,1 Tanya Edlington,21Department of Community Emergency Health and Paramedic Practice, Monash University, Franskton, VIC, 2The Conversation Clinic Pty Ltd, Melbourne, VIC, Australia Background: Clinical supervisors are responsible for managing many facets of clinical learning and face a range of challenges when the need for "difficult" conversations arises, including the need to manage conflict and relationships. Methods: Spotlight on Conversations Workshop was developed to improve the capacity of clinical supervisors to engage in difficult conversations. They were designed to challenge the mindset of clinical supervisors about difficult conversations with students, the consequences of avoiding difficult conversations, and to offer activities for practicing difficult conversations. Preworkshop, postworkshop, and 4-month follow-up evaluations assessed improvements in knowledge, intent to improve, and confidence along with workshop satisfaction. Results: Nine workshops were delivered in a range of locations across Victoria, Australia, involving a total of 117 clinical supervisors. Preworkshop evaluations illustrated that more than half of the participants had avoided up to two difficult conversations in the last month in their workplace. Postworkshop evaluation at 4 months showed very high levels of satisfaction with the workshop's relevancy, content, and training, as well as participants' intention to apply knowledge and skills. Also shown were significant changes in participants' confidence to have difficult conversations not only with students but also with other peers and colleagues. In follow-up in-depth interviews with 20 of the 117 participants, 75% said they had made definite changes in their practice because of what they learned in the workshop and another 10% said they would make changes to their practice, but had not had the opportunity yet to do so. Conclusion: We conclude that the Spotlight on Conversations Workshop can improve the clinical supervisor–student relationship as well as build general difficult conversation capacity for a range of stakeholders in clinical settings. Keywords: clinical, education, supervision, communicatio
Manufacturing and commissioning of the new ex-vessel magnetic diagnostics system for JET
No full textA new system of magnetic probes was installed during the 2005 shutdown and was commissioned during the 2005/2006 restart
phase of JET. The system is made of traditional pick-up coils and Hall sensors, all located outside the vessel.
Direct field measurements from Hall sensors are used to correct the drift of the integrators of the pick-up coils signals. This
feature will be crucial for future ITER-like devices, where long-lasting flat top phases are expected, in a high neutron yield and
a high temperature environment.
After a general overview of the system, the paper describes the major manufacturing and installation issues, including the
construction of the supports and probes as well as the acceptance tests before and after installation.
The functional commissioning of the system includes the integration of the new signals in the JET Data Acquisition System
and the analysis of several discharges with and without plasma. The critical aspects of the assessment of the reliability of the
signals are shown and commented on
STATUS OF DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE OF THE UPPER COILS AND OUTER POLOIDAL LIMITER COILS SUBSYSTEMS FOR THE JET-EP MAGNETIC DIAGNOSTIC
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Design of ex-vessel magnetic probes for JET-EP
No full textA new magnetic diagnostics system has been designed for the 2005 JET experimental campaigns onward. The system, which
is integrated into the existing magnetic diagnostics, consists of in-vessel and ex-vessel sensors, and is intended to provide
an improvement in the accuracy and reliability of the present equilibrium reconstruction and iron modelling capabilities
. In this paper, the ex-vessel system is described, which
consists of an array of pick-up coils, Hall probes and flux loops probes to be installed in the proximity of the upper horizontal
iron limbs and inside the iron collar. The sensors are designed to produce an absolute measurement of the magnetic field
configuration in the vicinity of the magnetic structure of the machine, which is considered valuable information for the tuning
of the axisymmetric models used for plasma equilibrium reconstruction. On the basis of recent results obtained with Hall probe
prototypes on JET, the choice of type and location of probes, together with other design and manufacturing issues of the ex-vessel
magnetic diagnostics are presented and discussed
Are children who commit violent acts against other children born evil? An evaluation through case studies
No full textMary Bell, Jon Venables, Robert Thompson and the ‘Edlington’ boys all committed serious violent acts against other children. The ‘why’ of these incidents was not explored in the court cases, yet child development research indicates that experiences significantly influence children’s behavioural tendencies.
A small-scale review of empirical case studies was used to help undertake a considered assessment of whether root causal factors may have been present in their backgrounds. Through an exploration of their backgrounds and family situations the possible risk factors of abuse and neglect during infancy; poor parental attachment during infancy; negative socialisation during infancy and genetic influences were selected. These themes were checked against the responses of interested parties. The responses were gained through open-ended questionnaires and telephone interviews and confirmed these risk factors, with neglect and abuse seeming to be the correlation which was most attributed to the development of violent tendencies.
Due to the nature of the study, the results cannot be purported to be generally applicable to all similar cases, but the results are worth considering and should instigate further study into this area
Progress in technology at JET
No full textJET supports ITER both in development of technology and in torus operations. The latter include the study of ITER-like scenarios, operation in tritium (a trace tritium campaign has recently been completed), mitigation of ELMs and disruptions, investigation of tritium retention, real time control of plasma parameters, and control of extreme plasma shapes. Operation of highly shaped ITER scenarios has been demonstrated. Heating systems are being upgraded, with the enhanced NB system in full operation, an ITER-like RF antenna under manufacture, coupling of LHCD over large distances achieved and external conjugate-T matching of an RF antenna demonstrated. New diagnostics including halo current probes and neutron and alpha particle detector are being installed. In-vessel installation is being carried out remotely using up-graded remote handling tools. Analysis of tritiated samples from the 1997 tritium campaign, and the development detritiation methods for hard and soft waste continues. Substantial enhancement of JET to better exploit its capabilities in the preparations for ITER are presently being implemented
Progress in technology at JET
No full textJET supports ITER both in development of technology and in torus operations. The latter include the study of ITER-like scenarios, operation in tritium (a trace tritium campaign has recently been completed), mitigation of ELMs and disruptions, investigation of tritium retention, real time control of plasma parameters, and control of extreme plasma shapes. Operation of highly shaped ITER scenarios has been demonstrated. Heating systems are being upgraded, with the enhanced NB system in full operation, an ITER-like RF antenna under manufacture, coupling of LHCD over large distances achieved and external conjugate-T matching of an RF antenna demonstrated. New diagnostics including halo current probes and neutron and alpha particle detector are being installed. In-vessel installation is being carried out remotely using up-graded remote handling tools. Analysis of tritiated samples from the 1997 tritium campaign, and the development detritiation methods for hard and soft waste continues. Substantial enhancement of JET to better exploit its capabilities in the preparations for ITER are presently being implemented
Plasma density measurements on COMPASS-C tokamak from electron cyclotron emission cutoffs
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