The context, influences and challenges for undergraduate nurse clinical education: Continuing the dialogue

Introduction – Approaches to clinical education are highly diverse and becoming increasingly complex to sustain in complex milieu Objective – To identify the influences and challenges of providing nurse clinical education in the undergraduate setting and to illustrate emerging solutions. Method: A discursive exploration into the broad and varied body of evidence including peer reviewed and grey literature. Discussion - Internationally, enabling undergraduate clinical learning opportunities faces a range of challenges. These can be illustrated under two broad themes: (1) Legacies from the past and the inherent features of nurse education and (2) Challenges of the present, including, population changes, workforce changes, and the disconnection between the health and education sectors. Responses to these challenges are triggering the emergence of novel approaches, such as collaborative models. Conclusion(s) – Ongoing challenges in providing accessible, effective and quality clinical learning experiences are apparent

Rising to the challenge : the delivery of simulation and clinical skills during COVID-19

The declaration of a global pandemic in March 2020 resulted in all higher education institutions having to quickly transform traditional didactic teaching and learning to online delivery. This involved delivering lectures and seminars virtually, and student contact time in University ceased immediately. Although many Universities had existing resources such as Blackboard® and Microsoft Teams® in place to assist with this delivery, the facilitation of clinical skills and simulation would prove to be more of a challenge. This paper explores how one University adapted and utilized innovative ways to provide students with virtual learning experiences, specifically in relation to the facilitation of clinical skills and simulation

Changing Face of Ottoman Imperial Image: Carpets of Dolmabahce Palace, Turkiye

As a result of Westernization act within the State, flourishing from the end of 18th century, essential alteration took place in the social and cultural life in the Ottoman Empire. Western influence asserted itself intensively as soon as Sultan Abdulmecid (1839-61) was enthroned; it was Western style which was immediately imitated in State Governance as well as in every aspect of life, in architecture, architectural decoration, in furnishings, in clothing and home textiles such as upholstery fabrics and carpets used in Sultan Palaces. One of the most striking references of this alteration is the Dolmabahce Palace which was built in 1842-56. The Palace shows disparity from decorative and functional aspects compared to the former palaces with its interior decoration and the textiles (carpets, draperies, upholstery fabrics). In duration of Westernization Period, Ottoman Empire defined the visual images of authority in Western style so as to be accepted as a legitimate state in the international system. Ottoman Empire, not willing to lose prestige against the prevailing political power of West, started to imitate it in cultural domain consciously and used carpets with motifs of European style. In this paper, it is intended to explain the chancing visual image of authority and imperial objects in Ottoman Empire in view of European style carpets held by the Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul. Within the 600 years lifetime of the Ottoman Empire, the location of the palace, which was the centre of the government, had been changed a few times. First, the palace in Bursa moved to the capital in Edirne, and then moved to Istanbul. When Istanbul became the capital of the Empire, the first palace established in this city was the Old Palace - Saray-ı Atik-i Amire (1453- 1478). Topkapı Palace (1478-1456) followed this first central government, and then the sultan used the Topkapı Palace, the Old Çırağan Palace, Beşiktaş Coastal Palace and the Old Beylerbeyi Palace at intervals. The central government moved finally to Dolmabahce Palace as its construction was completed in 1856 (fig. 1)

West Anatolian Carpet Designs: The Effect of Carpet Trade between Ottoman Empire and Great Britain

West Anatolia is a region that holds diverse precincts of carpet weaving in terms of colour, motif and composition features the carpets display throughout history. The carpet weaving tradition of West Anatolia till the middle of the 19th century had continued as a home industry which was manufactured by the villagers. The weaving style followed a sample rug called “örneklik” (a sampler with many motifs on it); the weaver was selecting the type of design she wanted to use. It was not the custom to draw the design of the carpet on a design paper. Together with the increase in carpet exportation to Europe and America, there had occured a distinct disparity particularly in the colour, motif and composition styles of these traditional carpets. Following this, in some regions, the carpets were being manufactured according to the patterns brought from Europe. Furthermore, English carpet traders opened a Design Office in Izmir. So it was inevitable for the native weavers who were producing for English firms to use design papers; this also introduced a technical change that affected the character of traditional design. The emphasis of this research is on displaying the disparity and diversity in West Anatolian traditional carpets as from the end of 19th century from the aspect of the change in colour, motif and composition styles. The visual samples for this research are held in private collections of families living in and around Izmir; they have not been previously published