Bristol Water (United Kingdom)

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To ask: (i) is it feasible to include Twitter as an assessed element of the first-year nursing curriculum; (ii) how should it be introduced and assessed; and (iii) do students think it worthwhile and learn anything from its use? Nursing students need to use social media professionally, avoiding pitfalls but using learning opportunities. This case study (2014-2015) comprised: (i) pilot introduction of Digital Professionalism (including Twitter) with second- and third-year students; (ii) introduction and assessment with a first cohort of 450 first-year students. Based on feedback, methods were revised for; (iii) a second cohort of 97. Students received a face-to-face lecture, two webinars, used chat rooms and were asked to create course Twitter accounts and were assessed on their use. Few second and third year students started optional Twitter use whereas nearly all first years used it. Most students (70·1% first, 88·0% second cohort) thought inclusion of Twitter was worthwhile. Changes from first to second cohort included better peer-peer support, more contextualization and more emphasis on nursing communities. More second cohort students learned from Twitter (44·4% vs. 70·8%) and used Twitter recently (43·3% vs. 81·6%). Students gained wider perspectives on nursing, better understanding of social media, 'being student nurses' and topics like health promotion. Students mostly followed not only online nursing communities but also patient organizations. Including Twitter as an assessed element for first-year nursing students was feasible, students think it worthwhile and other nursing schools should consider introducing it in the broader context of Digital Professionalism.

Characteristics of the fetal heart rate (FHR) were studied longitudinally throughout the second and third trimesters in 43 low-risk singleton fetuses. The second trimester was characterized by an FHR pattern showing minimal differences between quiet and active intervals of fetal behavior. Few movements were accompanied by accelerations of small magnitude. Brief decelerations of variable magnitude exceeded the number of accelerations, and their frequency declined with advancing maturity. The percentage of body movements accompanied by FHR acceleration, the amplitude of these accelerations, and the rate of rise in heart rate increased with gestational age. Up to 30 weeks, the characteristics of the baseline FHR were similar in both periods of fetal rest and activity, with the baseline variability becoming significantly greater with advancing gestation. However, during quiet cycles of fetal behavior after 30 weeks, the baseline variability became progressively narrower, so that in late pregnancy different behavioral states could be determined reliably from characteristics of the baseline FHR alone.

SYNOPSISIn July/August 1985 a significant outbreak of giardiasis occurred in part of south Bristol. An epidemiological inquiry carried out strongly suggested that the outbreak was water‐borne. Although no positive evidence was found to link the outbreak with mains water. the Company immediately accepted its feasibility m d co‐operated fully with the Hcalth Authorities in the ensuing investigation.The piper ilescrihes the investigation to ascertain whether the supply system was involved, and considers some of the broader implications of the situation.