Learning By Accident

Author : Rosemary Rawlins
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781629141466

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Learning by Accident by Rosemary Rawlins Pdf

On a sunny spring day, in an ordinary suburban kitchen, the phone rings. There’s been an accident. In one heartbeat, a family’s life is changed forever. After her husband, Hugh, is hit by a car while riding his bicycle, Rosemary Rawlins is plunged into twelve months of marathon caregiving, without the promise of a positive outcome. She works herself to the point of exhaustion to bring her grievously injured husband—who suffered a traumatic brain injury, necessitating the removal of half his skull—back home and back to himself. Then, as he slowly begins to reclaim his life, Rosemary falls apart. She can't sleep. Her heart pounds. Her joy and trust in the world dissolve into endless anxiety. She lays awake at night wondering how her marriage will survive. Will she ever be able to relate to Hugh again? What will become of their relationship? Their children? Do they recognize each other—literally—as the people they fell in love with and married decades ago? How can she let go of her fears? And what can she learn from them? Learning by Accident is a caregiver's story of ambiguous loss, family love, and emotional healing. This compelling personal account demonstrates with heart and humor that what we fear can be more debilitating than any physical injury. And that sometimes starting over is exactly what we need.

Author : Glasko Klein
Publisher : Darby Creek ™
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781541547148

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The Accident by Glasko Klein Pdf

When Daniel's friends invite him to a house party, he thinks it's a bad idea. But after some convincing, he agrees to go. On the way there, they get into a car accident and one of his friends gets hurt. A few days later, Daniel receives a mysterious text message from an unknown number asking him if he'd like a do-over. He accepts and somehow is able to repeat the days leading up to the accident. But even if he doesn't go to the party, will that be enough to keep his friends safe?

Author : Fariba Mojtabai,James A. Kaufman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:932790128

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Learning by Accident by Fariba Mojtabai,James A. Kaufman Pdf

Author : Andrew K. Milton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475806595

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The Normal Accident Theory of Education by Andrew K. Milton Pdf

Analyses of education are too often developed for public consumption in a fast-moving political world. This book examines some of the deeper organizational reasons why things don’t work so well in school, as well as a look at some of things that do work. Most importantly, the book will explain how the social and cultural expectations of what schools can do may create unrealistic hopes. We, as a society, and schools, as institutions, embrace these unreasonably high hopes at our collective peril.

Author : Dr Todd Conklin
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781409483540

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Pre-Accident Investigations by Dr Todd Conklin Pdf

This book is a set of new skills written for the managers that drive safety in their workplace. This is Human Performance theory made simple. If you are starting a new program, revamping an old program, or simply interested in understanding more about safety performance, this guide will be extremely helpful.

Author : Trevor Kletz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781136388132

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Learning from Accidents by Trevor Kletz Pdf

Review of previous edition: "Trevor Kletz's book makes an invaluable contribution to the systematic, professional and scientific approach to accident investigation". The Chemical Engineer Fully revised and updated, the third edition of Learning from Accidents provides more information on accident investigation, including coverage of accidents involving liquefied gases, building collapse and other incidents that have occurred because faults were invisible (e.g. underground pipelines). By analysing accidents that have occurred Trevor Kletz shows how we can learn and thus be better able to prevent accidents happening again. Looking at a wide range of incidents, covering the process industries, nuclear industry and transportation, he analyses each accident in a practical and non-theoretical fashion and summarises each with a chain of events showing the prevention and mitigation which could have occurred at every stage. At all times Learning from Accidents, 3rd Edition emphasises cause and prevention rather than human interest or cleaning up the mess. Anyone involved in accident investigation and reporting of whatever sort and all those who work in industry, whether in design, operations or loss prevention will find this book full of invaluable guidance and advice.

Author : Brian Dolan,Lynda Holt
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Emergency care nursing
ISBN : 9780702026843

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Accident & Emergency by Brian Dolan,Lynda Holt Pdf

This edition shows nurses why they are doing what they do, rather than just how, for a range of A&E conditions. It has sections that cover potential problem areas, such as paediatrics and treating the mentally ill A&E patient. A basic A&P section is included so even the most experienced nurse can refresh their knowledge."

Author : Todd Conklin
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781315356426

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Pre-Accident Investigations by Todd Conklin Pdf

Pre-Accident Investigations: Better Questions - An Applied Approach to Operational Learning challenges safety and reliability professionals to get better answers by asking better questions. A provocative examination of human performance and safety management, the book delivers a thought-provoking discourse about how we work, and defines a new approach to operational learning. This is not a book about traditional safety. This is a book about creating "real" safety in your organization. In order to predict incidents before they happen, an organization should first understand how their processes can result in failure. Instead of managing the outcomes, they must learn to manage and understand the processes used to create them. Ideal for use in safety, human performance, psychology, cognitive and decision making, systems engineering, and risk assessment areas, this book equips the safety professional with the tools, steps, and models of success needed to create long-term value and change from safety programs.

Author : Edward Eigen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262534840

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On Accident by Edward Eigen Pdf

Engaging essays that roam across uncertain territory, in search of sunken forests, unclassifiable islands, inflammable skies, plagiarized tabernacles, and other phenomena missing from architectural history. This collection by “architectural history's most beguiling essayist” (as Reinhold Martin calls the author in the book's foreword) illuminates the unfamiliar, the arcane, the obscure—phenomena largely missing from architectural and landscape history. These essays by Edward Eigen do not walk in a straight line, but roam across uncertain territory, discovering sunken forests, unclassifiable islands, inflammable skies, unvisited shores, plagiarized tabernacles. Taken together, these texts offer a group portrait of how certain things fall apart. We read about the statistical investigation of lightning strikes in France by the author-astronomer Camille Flammarion, which leads Eigen to reflect also on Foucault, Hamlet, and the role of the anecdote in architectural history. We learn about, among other things, Olmsted's role in transforming landscape gardening into landscape architecture; the connections among hedging, hedge funds, the High Line, and GPS bandwidth; timber-frame roofs and (spider) web-based learning; the archives of the Houses of Parliament through flood and fire; and what the 1898 disappearance and reappearance of the Trenton, New Jersey architect William W. Slack might tell us about the conflict between “the migratory impulse” and “love of home.” Eigen compares his essays to the “gathering up of seeds that fell by the wayside.” The seedlings that result create in the reader's imagination a dazzling display of the particular, the contingent, the incidental, and the singular, all in search of a narrative.

Author : Trevor Kletz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781136388149

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Learning from Accidents by Trevor Kletz Pdf

Review of previous edition: "Trevor Kletz's book makes an invaluable contribution to the systematic, professional and scientific approach to accident investigation". The Chemical Engineer Fully revised and updated, the third edition of Learning from Accidents provides more information on accident investigation, including coverage of accidents involving liquefied gases, building collapse and other incidents that have occurred because faults were invisible (e.g. underground pipelines). By analysing accidents that have occurred Trevor Kletz shows how we can learn and thus be better able to prevent accidents happening again. Looking at a wide range of incidents, covering the process industries, nuclear industry and transportation, he analyses each accident in a practical and non-theoretical fashion and summarises each with a chain of events showing the prevention and mitigation which could have occurred at every stage. At all times Learning from Accidents, 3rd Edition emphasises cause and prevention rather than human interest or cleaning up the mess. Anyone involved in accident investigation and reporting of whatever sort and all those who work in industry, whether in design, operations or loss prevention will find this book full of invaluable guidance and advice.

Author : Steve Hodges,Suzanne Schlosberg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780762784271

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It's No Accident by Steve Hodges,Suzanne Schlosberg Pdf

Proven, practical advice for treating and preventing potty problems.

Author : Andrea Tsurumi
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781328466525

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Accident! by Andrea Tsurumi Pdf

When a clumsy armadillo named Lola knocks over a glass pitcher, she sets off a silly chain of events, encountering chaos wherever she goes. But accidents happen—just ask the stoat snarled in spaghetti, the airborne sheep, and the bull who has broken a whole shop’s worth of china. In the tradition of beloved books like The Dot and Beautiful Oops, this charming, hilarious debut from author-illustrator Andrea Tsurumi shows that mistakes don’t have to be the end of the world.

Author : Carol Sorkin Hunter
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1539406512

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A Divine Accident by Carol Sorkin Hunter Pdf

With a childhood spent in Hollywood, a father who is beloved by the entertainment elite, and all the shiny things money can buy, Carol Sorkin Hunter's life should be a fairy tale...right? Yet the shadows that lurk behind Hunter's life mean she's living in a nightmare she alone truly understands. A freak experience at a young age triggers a personal journey she could never have predicted. As Hunter navigates the dark corners of the human experience-slipping into the murkiness of hopelessness and the terrifying realm of poverty-she realizes she has no idea where to turn. A Divine Accident is the touching and inspiring true story of one woman's refusal to give up on herself when the world around her seems to have already done so. As she finds love and grace, Hunter slowly and surely begins to finally discover who she is. With a heart full of unshakable faith, determination, and resilience to discover herself, Carol Sorkin Hunter uses her own experiences to inspire others. A Divine Accident: A Memoir of Life, Love and Learning reminds us all that the true fairy tales in life are often the ones we write ourselves.

Author : Enoch George Payne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Accidents
ISBN : UOM:39015028108978

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Education in Accident Prevention by Enoch George Payne Pdf

Author : Rosemary Rawlins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Brain
ISBN : 1432773259

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Learning by Accident by Rosemary Rawlins Pdf

On a sunny spring day, in an ordinary kitchen, Rosemary answers an unexpected phone call. A car has hit her husband, Hugh. Rosemary arrives at the hospital just in time to see him before he's rushed into surgery. Thinking of their twin daughters, Rosemary pleads with her unconscious husband as he lies on a gurney. "Don't you leave me Hugh Rawlins. Anna and Mary need you. I love you." Overwhelmed, but determined to bring Hugh back home, Rosemary leans on family and friends as Hugh endures two emergency brain surgeries, a coma, and a confused awakening. When he finally opens his eyes, his vacant stare, the absence of his soul, hits her like a jab in the chest. She moves alongside his bed as he travels from the ICU to the medical surgical floor, and then to the acute brain rehab center, shepherding her two girls while trying to suppress the implosion of her own heart. Everything Rosemary learns about brain injury shocks her system anew. A large chunk of Hugh's skull has been removed and put on ice in the hospital freezer. Hugh, once an athletic business executive, needs to relearn the most basic activities like brushing his teeth and putting on his clothes in the right order. He has no short-term memory, and a myriad of symptoms she has never heard before: pocketing, left neglect, and loss of executive function. With his strong character, management salary, and athletic resilience, Hugh once supported the family in nearly every way. Rosemary's task of holding their lives together while helping him heal feels daunting enough, but she cannot counsel or lean on the one person she needs most-her husband. Through a series of episodes, from heart-rending to ridiculous, Rosemary and her teenage daughters play out their lives in a cyclone of uncertainty. Hugh is a different man, yet oddly the same stubborn husband she remembers. Rosemary tells a friend she's having an affair without cheating on her husband. Slowly, Hugh's athletic tenacity resurfaces as he achieves a remarkable recovery, but Rosemary unravels from constant stress, somehow sure that disaster lurks around every corner. Hugh is getting better. Why is Rosemary falling apart? Learning by Accident is a heartwarming story of family love and commitment, and the secondary trauma that remains with caregivers after all the hard work is done. Touching and triumphant, Learning by Accident celebrates how shedding fear and starting over can lead to peace, and in that place of peace, possibilities appear, and lives flourish.