Recently, been practicing patience, as i figure its probably a good trait to have
Sit and wait for an hour before committing,
Go stand outside for an hour and wait for something that might never come (but just as easily might)
that sort of thing,
Been working well, but now, i've found a stretch,
Because i've gone through life always trying to be self sufficient, and if theres something i need that i might be relying on other people for, i always have a suitable back up plan
(If i've learned anything at university its that the only thing most people can be relied on for, is to be unreliable, if you expect them to fuck you over, and have a back up plan, if they help, its great and the backup can either be saved, or be put into the task, but if they DO let you down (as most people normally do) you have a method of getting what you needed to get done, thus avoiding problems.)
But now, i'm waiting for my clinical tutor because she wants to discuss placement with me, and she's half an hour late, and there was no backup plan available as this meeting was arranged by someone who wasn’t me (i’d have done my best to be here on time come hell or high water) thankfully, one of the techs (Johnny) at uni is about to ring her, but it still pisses me off.
If there’s anything this experience has taught me, its that the majority of people (including ones in important places) cannot be relied on at all!
Won’t rely on anyone else every again (bar the few who have never let me down)
Don't know why i'm shocked, i know human nature is to be selfish!
Each
item of assessment is designed to measure if you have achieved the learning
outcomes for this module. It is important you consider these when preparing for
the assessment.
Essay (2500 words)
Title:
‘How can patient adherence (stick too) be improved during diagnostic imaging
procedures’.
Wordage
Weighting %
Coursework
2500
word essay
100%
Portfolio
Part
of the clinical portfolio
Qualificatory
MinimumPass
Level Descriptor
To
achieve the minimum mark you will produce a report as described below. We do
hope that you will be able to produce an essay that is above this minimum
standard. Use the year one assessment criteria to help you achieve this.
Minimum
D (pass) grade will be achieved if: you meet all the learning outcomes of the
module with evidence of a basic understanding of psychological and sociological
theory in radiography with the aim of increasing patient satisfaction and
compliance.
Marking
Grid
The
following marking grid will be used by tutors who will be assessing your work.
You should use this along with the level 1 college-wide grade descriptors,
available in the student handbook, when planning your essay.This would indicate how you could raise your
mark from the minimum mark described previously.
Assessment Criteria
We
are looking for an assignment that shows an understanding of
non-compliance/non-adherence, how non-compliance/non-adherence might influence
radiography and how you as a practitioner can reduce this.It will be necessary, as the subject of
compliance/adherence is so broad, to concentrate your discussion around one
area of radiography and/or non-compliant behaviour.The assignment should be well presented,
structured and referenced using a range of relevant and up to date books, web
pages and journals.All criteria are
equally weighted.Please see blackboard
for more detail on what is expected from you for this assignment.
Ensure
you reference your work properly using the Harvard referencing system otherwise
you will lose marks. Work should be double spaced and written in third person,
past tense.
Submission Date: 16th May
2012.
Reassessment
Reassessment in failed component(s) as stated
in academic regulations
- Re-presentation of essay correcting errors
or omissions.
Reading List
Argyle,
M. (1994) The psychology of interpersonal behaviour5t.h edn. Penguin Books; London.
Bateman,
N. (2000) Advocacy skills for Health and Social care Professionals 2nd
edn. London
Dimond,
B. (2003) Legal Aspects of Consent. Dinton Quay.
Gabe,
J. Bury, M. Elston, MA. (2005) Key concepts in medical sociology. Sage
Publications
Goleman,
D. (1998) Working with E.I. London: Bloomsbury
Ley,
P. (1997) Communicating with patients: Improving Communication Satisfaction and
Compliance.Nelson Thomas
Marks,
D. Murray, M. Evans, B. Willig, C. Cailine, Woodall, Sykes, CM.(2005), Health Psychology: Theory Research
and Practice.2nd edn. Sage
Publications
Pears,
R. Shields, G. (2004) Cite them right: referencing made easy Northumbria
University Press
Redman,
P. (2001) Good essay Writing: A social sciences guide. Sage Publications
Redmond,
MV. (2000) Communication: Theories and applications Houghton Mifflin
Seedhouse,
D. (2003) Ethics-The heart of Healthcare Chichester: John Wiley.
Further
reading around specific topics can be found on the MISR4004 section of
Blackboard
had a pretty good day, today we FINALLY finished the chemistry spec, so thats it, i'm done with chemistry AND physics now just biology to go then its plain sailing and LOADS of revision until exams :D
I ordered my bag for uni last night, and it just so happens to be a new dive bag too ;) 20 quid of amazon, can't be bad :P mick turner might not be impressed with me spending money on kit NOT from the shop, but £20 for a bag that normally sells for 35, i'm not passing up on that kind of bargain :D (if you're reading this, sorry mick :D normally I'd spend it at the shop ... but i'm a poor student )
REALLY looking forward to uni now, its 4 months away thats 16 weeks, 112 days 2688 hours, 161280 minutes .... but i'm getting ahead of myself :P
well! its 5 pm and i best do some revision,
talk later guys
to the stage where firefox logged me out and i had to remember my password (i have 6 different passwords i used for everything, so it took me a whole ¬¬ )
Got my extended project presentation tomorrow, and its not finished yet :( so i have to take my beautiful laptop into college tomorrow and work my pasty white butt off trying to cram about 1000 words into 4 more slideshows (if i don't post tomorrow, assume i took it upon myself to throw every piece of tech i own out of the window in a strop)
life, currently, sucks if im honest, exams are getting closer, which means uni is getting closer, and theres this little niggling doubt in the back of my head that keeps telling me that maybe i'm doing things the wrong way, maybe i SHOULDN'T share with ellie and sarah, because that defeats the whole objective of uni life
maybe i've chosen the wrong course, or what if i fail and drop out halfway through the second year?
all these questions bombing around inside my head, its any wonder i can actually SLEEP at night, let alone concentrate in college.
my last post was on sunday, and i'd started to miss you guys... strange, i tell you strangers more than i tell anyone else, who knows, one day someone i know may read this blog and find out lots about me (mind you, its going public when i go to uni, so i guess they'll all find out then :) )
Really getting stressed over physics right now, i go to all the workshops, all the extra help, but yet it still doesn't seem to be making ANY sense to me what so ever =/ and i'm really worried that if i don't get a C in it overall i'll be boned for getting into liverpool :(
It won't affect my chanced of getting into A university, i'm very confident that i will get into cumbria, but i wanna go liverpoooll -childish strop-
next week is easter holidays, and i'm going to spend as much time as i physically can in college/at home revising, (that reminds me, must sort out a revision time table at some point) i think its the last proper holidays before exams, and i'm REALLY uber nervous, and as anyone will tell you, i don't normally do nerves at all =/
On a lighter note, i'm starting my divemaster course this thursday (i think) which should be fun, hard work, rewarding.... but fun non the less, i can't wait, because a lot of the stuff, i SHOULD ace, and kick the other 6 divemasters in trainings ass (just like at college ;) i feel a serious amount of resentment will be felt towards me ;) ) but then again, i HAVE been diving for almost 5 years now, and have LOADS of experience teaching, helping teach, alsorts of kit, i can already work the compressor, basically i can do most of what a divemaster is expected to do already, this will just iron out all the kinks in my diving and (hopefully) make me better than i am already (and give me job potentials at universities/later in life)
wow, what a lengthy post for 08:10 in the morning (currently my time stamp on posts is being stupid (seems to be set on american time or something so i'll try and change that soon)
been another uber long day =/ nothing really important happened, me and sarah were gonna do accommodation applications today, but when we got so far we stopped to wait for ellie to hear from liverpool, so i hope that happens soon :)
Started planning going to liverpool this weekend, but i won't go into that :P because then i'll have nothing to post later
I was playing with my new camera today, and i realized that there is no real difference between regular, and fine quality, so i'll leave it on regular from now on :D it uses less memory.
Steve (my boss) said he was going to ring today, but he didn't, so i dunno whats going on there :S i'll keep y'all informed.
Also, set up my blogger so i can email posts now, so i don't need to be home to update you all :D (i have no idea how many people actually see this, but i know eventually it'll become a great way for my family to stay up to date with whats going on in the world that its mine :D )
if anyone out there is actually reading my posts, i would greatly appreciate it if you pass my URL on to others (i'm not fishing for hits ;) honest)
This isn't my first blog, and odd are if you're following me on here you WON'T know about my others ;) (where i run around venting anger at all the lovely people on the Internet for doing stupid things)
Basically, this blog will be the best way for people to find out how I'm doing at university (yes, i KNOW i'm probably tempting fate posting this up 6 months before i go :P but you'll never see it if i don't go, so it's not really tempting fate)
I'll try my very best to keep the content PG, but who knows what wacky stuffs i'll be posting while "studying" at weekend ;) (nah, i kid, its going to be a long hard 3 years)
For anyone who stumbles across this before i officially tell people it exists: I am currently and 18 year old male studying A levels in Physics, chemistry and biology and hoping to go onto university to study radiography (radiowhhaaat? ;) X raying humans)
Providing all goes well on results day and during application (which i am currently under going ) i SHOULD be sharing a room with Sarah who has quickly become a close friend since i met her at college what will be 2 years ago this september =] so expect lots of mentions/pictures of her/us doing crazy insane things.
Even though this is supposed to be a Uni blog it's probably gonna become my official one so from time to time i'll pop in and let y'all know whats going on up inside my crazy head.
thats around about all i have to say right now :)
OH! when i'm at uni i'll probably link this to my twitter and facebook
if you don't follow me on twitter my name is "alamefish" feel free to follow :D
