Pre-Professional Education for Ancillary Service Providers Who Work with Children Experiencing Abuse or Neglect

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacquelyn Baker-Sennett
Keyword(s):  
Professional Education ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Ancillary Service

scholarly journals Developing a postgraduate professional education framework for emergency nursing: a co-design approach

BMC Nursing ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen A. Theobald ◽  
Fiona Maree Coyer ◽  
Amanda Jane Henderson ◽  
Robyn Fox ◽  
Bernadette F. Thomson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Education ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Emergency Nursing ◽  
Integration Framework ◽  
Graduate Certificate ◽  
University Settings ◽  
Assessment Strategies ◽  
University Industry

Abstract Background Hospital and university service providers invest significant but separate resources into preparing registered nurses to work in the emergency department setting. This results in the duplication of both curricula and resource investment in the health and higher education sectors. This paper describes an evidence-based co-designed study with clinical-academic stakeholders from hospital and university settings. Methods The study was informed by evidence-based co-design, using emergency nursing as an exemplar. Eighteen hours of co-design workshops were completed with 21 key clinical-academic stakeholders from hospital and university settings. Results Outcomes were matrices synchronising professional and regulatory imperatives of postgraduate nursing coursework; mutually-shaped curriculum content, teaching approaches and assessment strategies relevant for postgraduate education; a new University-Industry Academic Integration Framework; five agreed guiding principles of postgraduate curriculum development for university-industry curriculum co-design; and a Graduate Certificate of Emergency Nursing curriculum exemplar. Conclusion Industry-academic service provider co-design can increase the relevance of postgraduate specialist courses in nursing, strengthening the nexus between both entities to advance learning and employability. The study developed strategies and exemplars for future use in any mutually determined academic-industry education partnership.

Selling Power System Flexibility: Ancillary Service and Real-Time Energy Market Challenges for Storage

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan Kirby
Keyword(s):  
Power System ◽  
Demand Response ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Market Design ◽  
Ancillary Service ◽  
Market Prices ◽  
Regulatory Changes ◽  
System Access ◽  
Power System Flexibility

Power system operators obtain the flexibility required to reliably balance aggregate generation and load through ancillary service and five-minute energy markets. Market prices are based on the marginal opportunity costs of the generators. This market design works well for generators but inherently fails for storage and demand response, denying these new technologies a fair opportunity to compete and denying the power system access to potentially lower cost reliability resources. Market design or regulatory changes may be required for storage and demand response to be viable ancillary service providers.

scholarly journals Plug-in Electric Vehicles for Grid Services Provision: Proposing an Operational Characterization Procedure for V2G Systems

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 1240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ângelo Casaleiro ◽  
Rodrigo Amaro e Silva ◽  
João Serra
Keyword(s):  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Power Factor ◽  
Power Flow ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Ancillary Service ◽  
Grid Services ◽  
Vehicle To Grid ◽  
Operational Characteristics ◽  
Characterization Procedure

Plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) are expected to play a role as power grid ancillary service providers through vehicle-to-grid (V2G) chargers, enabling higher levels of renewable electricity penetration. However, to fully exploit the storage capacity of PEVs and fast responsiveness, it is crucial to understand their operational characteristics. This work proposes a characterization procedure for V2G systems providing grid services. It extends the existing literature on response time, AC/DC conversion and reactive power assessment. Illustrative results were obtained by implementing the procedure using a Nissan Leaf battery electric vehicle (BEV) connected to a remotely operated commercial V2G CHAdeMO charger. The V2G system was characterized as having a relative inaccuracy and variability of response inferior to 3% and 0.4%, respectively. Its average communication and ramping times are 2.37 s and 0.26 s/kW, respectively. Its conversion efficiency and power factor both showed degradation in the power values below 50% of the charger’s nominal power. Moreover, the proposed visualizations revealed that: i) the V2G system implements power requests for the DC power flow; ii) the power factor control algorithm was nonoperational; and iii) the acquired data can leverage statistical models that describe the operation of V2G systems (which is of extreme value for researchers and operators).

Breaking the silence of racism injuries: a community-driven study

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Bonnie Lee ◽  
Peter Kellett ◽  
Kamal Seghal ◽  
Corina Van den Berg
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Individual Treatment ◽  
Assessment Instruments ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Canadian City

Purpose Injuries resulting from racism are largely hidden by silence. Community services to provide healing from racism are missing in at least one Canadian city. The purpose of this paper is to identify the injuries suffered by immigrants who experienced racism and discuss the development of culturally appropriate programs and tools to address injuries from racism. Design/methodology/approach Participants representing visible minorities service providers from non-profit, public-funded organizations in a major Canadian city took part in two focus groups. Data from focus groups were thematically analyzed. Findings Racism produces traumatic and persistent psychological, social and intergenerational injuries. An ostensible gap exists in services, professional education and skills to address the psycho-social effects of this complex problem. The complicity of silence in both dominant and subordinated groups contributes to its perpetuation. A dearth of screening and assessment instruments is a barrier in identifying individuals whose mental health and addiction problems may have underlying racism-related etiology. Creation of community healing circles is recommended as a preferred method over individual “treatment” to expose and deconstruct racism, strengthen ethnic identity and intergenerational healing. Research limitations/implications These qualitative findings were generated based on the perspectives of a small purposive sample (n=8) of immigrant service providers and immigrants from one Canadian city. Many of these findings are consistent with the existing literature on internalized racism and racism injuries. Generalizability to the wider population of the province and of Canada requires further research. Practical implications Practitioners in health and social care as well as educators need to understand the injuries and internalized effects of racism to provide appropriate services and leadership. Development of anti-racism professional knowledge and skills, healing circles, and assessment instruments will contribute to deconstructing racism and mitigating its injuries. Originality/value Community-driven studies exploring racism and the lack of services to address the issue are scarce. This study pulls together the experience of service providers and their insights on ways to break the detrimental silence surrounding racism.

scholarly journals Challenges of Storage in Large Power Systems

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo A. Gómez-Ramírez ◽  
Carlos Meza
Keyword(s):  
Solar Energy ◽  
Power Systems ◽  
Power System ◽  
Central America ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Voltage Regulation ◽  
Frequency Regulation ◽  
Ancillary Service ◽  
Large Power ◽  
Power Sources

Fossil fuel-based electric generation is a contributor to air pollution in the world. In this regard, storage provides a viable specially if it is combined with solar energy and wind generation. Storage also represents a major challenge for the traditional criteria for planning the power system, which its generated with hydro and non-renewable generation as Central America case. This article reviews literature in loadability, frequency regulation and control, stability, economic issues, reliability, harmonics and power quality and resilience applied to power systems. It presents a simulation using ETAP to analyze voltage profiles considering storage for El Salvador Power System (ESPS). The result shows a significant contribution in to enhance the voltage profiles and voltage regulation after failed. Opportunities also arise when storage is considered as potential ancillary service providers that can help to stabilize the grid under faulty situation or to mitigate the power generation variability of non-traditional renewable power sources such as wind and solar energy in Central America Power System. The present paper provides an overview of the major challenges of storage to large power systems.

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