The purpose of this thesis is to explore the relationships among child cognitive development, provision of care to the child, and the child's iron status through the use of quantitative and qualitative data. Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia remain widespread problems t…
The Health and Social Care Act 2012 (HSCA12) represents one of the more dramatic reforms in the history of the English National Health Service (NHS) in terms of scope and pace. The flagship of the policy was the replacement of Primary Care Trusts with Clinical Commissioning Grou…
The work of Humanities & Social Sciences students involves learning to express disciplinary content in essay assessment to disciplinary norms. Though tutors use a genre for professional writing, literacy is often not part of the classroom discussion. Therefore, many students hav…
Observations of young children are conducted in an educational setting by practitioners to plan and assess activities based on the individual development and needs of the child. Challenges include: recording, how to be an observer rather than a participant, and connecting develo…
When even seemingly benign and routine processes fail in healthcare, people sometimes die. The profound effect on the patient’s families and the healthcare staff involved is clear (Vincent and Coulter, 2002), while further consequences are felt by the institution involved, both …
The dissertation considers how a heterogeneous group of observers in the disciplines of natural history and lyric poetry write their attention to the natural world. The “intelligence” of their attention refers to the writing itself, as observation that bridges the divide between…
Many pediatric patients requiring admission are otherwise healthy children with self-limited illnesses, making them ideal candidates for care in a pediatric observation unit. Differences in outcomes of admission to a pediatric observation versus a pediatric inpatient unit have n…