Seeing Through the Patient’s Eyes – Increasing Patient Involvement in Optometry

Posted on June 5, 2015 by sbbh110

School of Health Sciences Community Engagement Seminar

Seeing Through the Patient’s Eyes – Increasing Patient

Involvement in Optometry

The School of Health Sciences at City University London would like to invite you to attend our next Community Engagement Seminar.

Date: Wednesday 24 June 2015

Time: 2.30-3.00pm

Venue: Room A226, College Building, City University London

This seminar will be led by Dr Ahalya Subramanian, Lecturer, in the Division of Optometry and Visual Sciences.

Ahalya Subramanian will explore how the Division of Optometry has involved patients in the development of the visual impairment curriculum and teaching on the module.

What do patients want Optometry students to know about visual impairment?

Why should we involve patients in curriculum development?

What are the benefits of involving patients in teaching about the impact of visual impairment?

For more information please visit www.city.ac.uk/health

‘My Experiences in the Big Chair’: Service User Experiences of Common Eye Diseases

Posted on June 5, 2015 by sbbh110

School of Health Sciences Community Engagement Seminar

‘My Experiences in the Big Chair’: Service User Experiences of Common Eye Diseases

The School of Health Sciences at City University London would like to invite you to attend our next Community Engagement Seminar.

Date: Wednesday 24 June 2015

Time: 2pm-2.30pm

Location: Room A226, College Building, City University London

The seminar will be led by Dr Byki Huntjens, Optometrists and Lecturer in the Division of Optometry and Visual Sciences. She is involved in teaching multiple clinical modules and co-facilitates the contact lens teaching for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Dr Byki Huntjens has introduced a new series of tutorials designed for UG and PG optometry programme, whereby service users with common eye diseases discuss their everyday experience of the disease, their experiences of the national screening services, and any treatment received.

Online eye examination tutorials including short interviews with the service users were prepared, and on separate occasions the service users supported dialogues with small groups of students regarding their everyday experiences coping with the disease.

‘By introducting the service user perspective to undergraduate optometry students, I envisage that the improved understanding of the patient perspective will translate into enhanced communication skills and optometric management when students progress to the professional eye clinics in their final year of study.’

During the lecture, Dr Byki Huntjens will address her experiences in recruitment of service users, filming and editing, and organizing the ‘Meet the Experts’ events for the students. Additionally, she will present the feedback results, and discuss future work to this series.

For more information please visit www.city.ac.uk/health

Service Users’ and Carers’ Collaboration within Adult Student Nurse Learning

Posted on June 5, 2015 by sbbh110

Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances the below seminar has been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date.

School of Health Sciences Community Engagement Seminar

Service Users’ and Carers’ Collaboration within Adult Student Nurse Learning

The School of Health Sciences at City University London would like to invite you to attend our next Community Engagement Seminar.

Date: Wednesday 24 June 2015

Time: 1pm-2pm

Location: Room A226, College Building, City University London

The seminar will be led by Melissa Chamney, a Senior Lecturer specilising in nephrology nursing and also the Programme Director for Undergraduate Pre-Registration Adult Nursing and joined the school in August 2004.

The nursing curriculum is based on a commitment to a relationship-centred care where health professionals and students value the relationships that form the context of care, including those of service users and carers. Within the adult undergraduate nurse programme during the Experiencing Long Term Care, Rehabilitation and Recovery module students have sessions led by service users and carers with long term conditions.

Meeting service users and carers outside clinical environments helps students gain a clearer understanding of how conditions can affect people’s daily lives (Terry 2011). It provides a focus for students to be aware of the tools and systems available to service users and carers to help them manage their long term condition. Students can then use these to incorporate into the care of their patients and their family and friends (Expert Patients Programme 2012).

For more information please visit www.city.ac.uk/health

Developing a Users & Carers involvement group for My Home Life: what have we learned?

Posted on February 12, 2015 by sbbh110

The Quality of Care for Older People research centre hosts My Home Life; a social movement emphasising quality of health, care and management for all those who live, work, visit and die in care homes.

Date: Wednesday 24 June 2015 at 3-4pm

Venue: Room A226, College Building, City University London

It is important to the integrity of health and care services research to include the experiences of service users and carers. My Home Life within the Quality of Care for Older People research centre at City University London is entering the next phase of its work, sustainability and community engagement, and a dedicated users and carers involvement group is central to this.

Join speakers Professor Julienne Meyer and Dr Anne Laybourne as they reflect on our experiences of developing My Home Life’s Users & Carers Involvement group, present our expectations and report what happened in reality, lessons learned and thoughts for sustaining this group in the future.

Community Engagement Seminar Series – Jacqueline Davies’ Case Study

Posted on November 26, 2014 by sbbh110

Now available on the blog

Jacqueline Davies, Lecturer in the Nursing Division

School of Health Sciences

Case Study on:

Public Health Walks: A Methodology for Taking Students into their Communities of Practice.

City University London students are undertaking public health walks in their communities of practice in the first term of nurse training. On their walks in public spaces students observe and reflect on the healthiness of the community. Please click on the link below for the full report:

Community Engagement and User Involvement in Teaching and Research Seminar series Jacqueline Davies

REMINDER: Apply now for Service User Involvement Awards

Posted on June 25, 2014 by sbbh110

Dear Colleagues

Proposal to support Innovative Approaches to Service User Involvement in Healthcare Education and Research

The School of Health Sciences Community Engagement (User Involvement) Strategy Committee agreed to explore new ways of encouraging, supporting and rewarding staff to develop innovative ways of involving service users in educational and research activities. The University’s Department for Learning Enhancement and Development (LeAD) has kindly agreed to sponsor a new initiative within the School of Health Sciences with these aims in mind.

SHS staff are invited to apply for one of FIVE awards of £2,000 each that will be used to support service user involvement in a new educational or research project. Research projects must have an educational component.

Successful applicants will be announced before the end of July 2014. Ideally, projects will be delivered in the autumn term 2014. Winners will be expected to give a presentation on their work supported by the funds at one or more of the following events:

SHS Community Engagement lunchtime seminar 2014-15
SHS Health has Got Talent 2015
Learning at City Conference 2015

Please click on the application form: SUI Projects Competition v2 30 05 14 for further details. To note the closing date for applications is: 5pm 26^th June.

With kind regards

Alan Simpson