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Nursing Work Activities In Australian Residential Aged Care Homes, Siyu Qian
Nursing Work Activities In Australian Residential Aged Care Homes, Siyu Qian
University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016
Background Australian residential aged care (RAC) homes are facing challenges of an increasing number of older people with complex care needs and a chronic shortage of skilled nursing staff to provide quality and efficient aged care services to these older people. Strategies like task re-allocation, process management and introduction of electronic information systems can be promising to overcome these challenges; however development of these strategies requires knowledge of nursing work activities and associate problems. Two important aged care services provided by nursing staff are personal care and nursing care. To date, there is little research on nursing work activities of …
Swinging The Lantern: Spatial Narrative In Visual Arts, Jenny Cuthbert
Swinging The Lantern: Spatial Narrative In Visual Arts, Jenny Cuthbert
University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016
Literary narratologists have long argued that narrative is not as present in the visual arts as in literary texts due to the lack of perceived linear sequencing and temporal movement. Such research has primarily focussed on pictorial narratives prior to modernism, leaving a notable absence of narrative theory surrounding a broader sphere of art forms from modernism to the present day. In this thesis, I propose that narratives within visual arts should be analysed from a new perspective that focuses on the spatial essence of visual arts practice. I examine diverse art-forms such as film, painting, installation and sculpture, from …
Entanglements With Time: Staging Stasis, Repetition And Duration In The Theatre, Deborah Pollard
Entanglements With Time: Staging Stasis, Repetition And Duration In The Theatre, Deborah Pollard
University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016
Entanglements with time: staging stasis, repetition and duration in the theatre examines the historic and contemporary function of time as a compositional tool in the theatre medium in order to further the conceptualisation of developments in performance practice that counter and reflect upon the underlying temporal dynamics of mediatisation. The project is informed by my extensive history of practice as a theatre maker and proposes the term time-based dramaturgy in its analysis of work by Forced Entertainment, Back to Back Theatre, practitioner case studies, and the development of a twenty-four hour performance, Yowza Yowza Yowza. It asks: What is the …