HELLO!

So, not posted for 3 months, plenty has happened

We had placement, which i don't really remember much of because i was traveling to and from newcastle from carlisle every day, so was knackered for sooo much of the time there

then we had a month of, and then eXaMs D:

Fuck me they did not go well, well, they went okay, but one of them has by far over shadowed all the rest,  as regular readers will know, i'm studying Diagnostic Radiography at university, meaning i am receiving training in anatomy, and in the taking, and reading of, many different types of medical imaging, from plain x-ray to PET/CT scans, however, one thing we don't really do in great depth, is Ultrasound (we're becoming radiographers not sonographers for god sake)

So along came this exam, it was an osce (sit at computers, loads of images come up, you have to interpret them and talk about them on the answer sheet you're given) as the exam was for anatomy, we all expected nice, clinically perfect drawn images to come up, instead of images acquired by Medical Imaging, maybe with the odd chest x-ray and a CT scan thrown in.

We were ssoooo wrong,

The first question, diagram of the male urinary system (not including the kidneys) asked to label. including the prostate, not so bad, everyone seemed fairly happy, until question two came along,

it was an ultrasound scan of god knows what with god knows what condition, no idea where the transducer (ultrasound wand) was placed, no idea what sort of image it was transverse (across) or longitudinal (up and down)

it just got worse and worse from there really,

Everyone was livid, made me giggle a bit at how angry everyone was :P

But life goes on,

Go back on placement on monday :) bought my tickets today, which involved getting the train to newcastle to by a metro pass (wasn't as dramatic as i expected, went rather smoothly if i do say so myself)

got back about an hour and a half ago now chilling thinking about watching house to get me syked up for placement hahaha

that and its the only series i have on my laptop, and i can't be arsed going to get my hardrive (by which i mean i don't know where it is :P )

Errm, nothing else new really

everyones gone home for summer now, which is depressing, i'm all alone in scumbria :(

Liam

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any help? hahaha

Assessment Brief

Assessment

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

Minimum Pass 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.

Criteria	F	D	C	B	A	AA	Notes
1. Understanding of adherence / non-adherence
2. How non-adherence influences radiography
3. Enhancement of adherence in radiography
4. presentation, structure, coherence, grammar, spelling
5. Referencing

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: 16^th 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 behaviour  5^t.h edn. Penguin Books; London.

Bateman, N. (2000) Advocacy skills for Health and Social care Professionals 2^nd 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.  2^nd 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

PAHAHAHAHAH

12 days 'till i leave for university :D cannot FUCKING wait (whoops, i swored :') )
started meeting people i'm gonna be studying with at uni (for un regular readers i'm studying diagnostic radiography at the UoC carlisle campus) and some of the people i'm going to be living with (only the girls so far :S and i've been told its a fairly even split of lads against lasses in my house, so we'll see)

but i move in on the 14th of september, with all my stuff, and my new life begins without the certain people that have spent the past few months trying to make my life difficult (you all know who she is (on another note, apparently a certain martial arts person is going to kill me :) thus removing his licence and his livelihood, its nice to see i make such big waves in a small pond :D )

I'm starting to realise exactly how much i'll miss my friends though, ellie and sarah are moving into a studio flat together in liverpool (lucky bitches) but last night was the second to last time i'll be diving on a thursday for a very long time (unless my timetable is awesome, then i might be able to come home thursday, dive, go home friday morning, but we'll see :) )

coming up soon (i forget the exact date :S ) is my grandma and grandads 50th wedding anniversary :D so a great big congrats to him for putting up for so long ;) (tee hee)

errmmmm i can't think of anything to add


OH! yes i can, i've got a 19th birthday party tonight at nelson cricket club, and the only reason i'm realllyy going is because my best friend (whom i've not seen for months) will be there :)


thats about it

Liam

OUT! :D

Its been 4 days guys D:

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.

i dunno

i'll keep you posted as always :D

liam


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Hai

Hey,

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

Liam



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