Learning from Ward Number Six

The number of tiered posets modulo six

Our goal in this note is to sketch a proof of a conjecture made by Kreweras [1] in a paper published in this journal. A poset on an n-set is said to be tiered with height h if every element belongs to a maximal chain with exactly h elements. It is easy to visualize these posets in terms of their Hasse diagrams. The elements can be arranged in tiers with the minimal elements in the first tier an...

Please Don’t Disturb! Ward Round in Progress: a QI project on reducing the number of interruptions during ward rounds

SIX NEW RECORDS OF AGARICUS FROM IRAN

In the present study, six species of Basidiomycetes all belonging to the genus Agaricus are reported for the first time from Iran along with details of macroscopic and microscopic characteristics. Six species are as follows: Agaricus campestris, A. lalage, A. nigrovinosus, A. nivescens, A. purpurellus and A. silvaticus.

Six Strategies for Effective Learning.

Cognitive psychologists have made significant advances in applying cognitive processes to education in the past few decade (Dunlosky, Rawson, Marsh, Nathan, & Willingham, 2013; Weinstein, Madan, & Smith, in press; Smith, Madan, & Weinstein, in press). From this work, specific recommendations can be made for students to maximize their learning efficiency. Specifically, six key learning strategie...

Learning to apply infection control policies on the ward.

DURING MY preceptorship within my current clinical area, I was presented with the ward copy of the trust's policies folder. It included the policies and guidelines on infection control, which I read one after the other. However, I found it difficult to relate them to my own clinical practices as, until then, I had rarely nursed seriously infectious patients within the ward environment. This, th...