…ing in touch, and how they have been volunteering and supporting the local community. Alongside Connections Matter, students (and staff) also have access to the already established Mental Health Zone/Portal. This platform provides individuals with the opportunity to request scheduled one to one interventions staffed by qualified mental health professionals (currently being done online) in addition to enabling access to a range of information relat…
…d more than 200 handcreams to nursing and care home staff. Since being fast-tracked to work on a cancer ward, second year adult nursing student Ellie Bouali has been encouraging her fellow healthcare professionals to follow her footsteps and seek free support from qualified therapists if they are feelings the effects of being on the frontline during the pandemic. First year mental health student Sam Godfrey has been putting what he’s learned durin…
…his year their role has been enhanced and the purpose is to support and welcome students to Coventry University and to give additional guidance in very unprecedented times due to Covid-19. “It’s a worrying time for many students, so we wanted a friendly approach to supporting them, encouraging social distancing, safely guiding them to the right buildings at the right times and ensuring they follow the updated relevant safety rules.” Visit the Cove…
…a week. The facility needed capacity for 4,000 critical care beds over the coming weeks to ease the already struggling NHS infrastructure in its battle with the escalating coronavirus pandemic. When complete, this would be the largest ICU facility in the world. Due to the timeframe and the sheer scale of the task, solutions had to be simple and repeatable. Utilising and adapting material typically used by the ExCeL Centre for trade shows enabled t…
…lowed news that the University’s National Horizons Centre was lending state-of-the-art analytical equipment to the NHS to enable testing for the virus to be stepped up. In short: The School of Health & Life Sciences delivered webinars over a number of different dates in response to a request from Health Education England for higher education institutions to deliver extra training to health care staff. They focused on managing ventilated patients w…
…otal of 133 Adult Nursing and Mental Health Nursing students have recently completed their undergraduate degrees, enabling them to apply for Nursing and Midwifery Council registration and begin employment with partner NHS Trusts. In addition, more than 300 Nursing and Midwifery students who are in the final six months of their degree are to undertake extended clinical placements with NHS partners, having either completed or scheduled their inducti…
…include: Solutions for food insecurity in the UK Immune responses to COVID-19 The linguistic communication of the pandemic in the UK Impacts on freelance artists AI systems and algorithms for monitoring virus spread BAME educational inequalities and redefining educational communities The future of online art practices Maritime trade during the pandemic Professor Richard Dashwood, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), said: “The university prides its…
…nding, pushing trolleys or lifting patients. In short: Using a large, state-of-the-art chamber, researchers can simulate exposure to the COVID-19 by dispersing an aerosol of common salt nanoparticles under a variety of environmental conditions. The team uses specialist dosimeters and the ELPI+ fine particle analyser to quickly and accurately measure the performance of PPE. They are working in partnership with industry-leading experts from Scieluti…
…llery and its exhibitions. The gallery is initially planning to offer robot-assisted guided tours of its current programme to visitors stuck at home, led by its curators and gallery team, as well applying the technology further to allow local artist-educators to facilitate interactive art lessons by piloting local children via the robot around the gallery. The gallery’s experience using the telepresence robot will also help to deepen scientific kn…
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