Hi! I’m Rachel, and I did the first half of the cranial nerve exam teaching. I have a part time job at a cinema and as such have had several interactions with BSL users in a customer facing environment. Some of these are easy enough to handle without any signing ability on my part as … Continue reading Cranial Nerve Teaching →

Hi I’m Luke! So, when I began this journey of learning sign language I didn’t really know what to expect. The project initially grabbed my intention due to its ambitious nature. To learn a new language was a very different challenge to the ones that medicine had posed to me before and I relished the … Continue reading Systemic Examination: Cranial Nerves →

In order to reflect aptly upon my experience of learning BSL I shall be using Gibbs reflective model. Upon beginning this project, our group first had to decide the method through which we would learn sign language. We first decided that we would learn British Sign Language (BSL). There was really only one option from … Continue reading Speaking in Hands →

by Rachel McKinnie As part of our SSC project, we decided to try and learn how to take a patient history in BSL. As such, we divided the history into manageable sections, and over a week two members of the group would learn how to sign their section and then teach this to the rest … Continue reading Preparing for Teaching →

After our meeting with John from DeafBlind Scotland and reading two studies about patient experience (Deafblind Scotland Report in Health Service to Deafblind people in Scotland) and (Report on NHS BSL/English interpreting provision within health settings in Scotland - https://www.bda.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/NHS_interpreter_Website.pdf), I think it's important to note what we can take from these to help patients … Continue reading Looking to the future…. →

When we first embarked on this 10 week project we had quite grand ideas on how we were going to achieve the aims of our projects, which included improving the experiences of deaf patients in healthcare settings by getting a better understanding of the difficulties they faced and learning basic BSL alongside the course of … Continue reading How Our Project Has Evolved →

Creating and carrying out a group project raises an abundance of challenges to overcome. With a focus on motivation, teamwork and organisation, I will reflect upon how we have faced these challenges. To do this, I will be using the Driscoll model of reflection. How did we stay motivated? What? Kick-starting a project itself is … Continue reading The Challenges that we have Faced Together →

Reflection using Gibbs reflective cycle What Happened? As part of our project we wanted to contact charities in order to meet some deaf patients and discuss the issues they encounter in healthcare. My role was to contact these charities with another group member in an initial email to see if there was any interest.We ended … Continue reading Forming Charity Contacts →

Our project is about us learning a basic level of British Sign Language and better understanding the experience of deaf patients in a healthcare setting, so that we might be able to improve interactions between deaf people and their health care providers. I have used the Driscoll model to reflect on the results of our … Continue reading The Research →

by Jenny Two friends are having pints at the pub. Their conversation is animated and big, involving lively hand gestures some can identify as British Sign Language. Suddenly, the two friends are on their way to A&E with one of them clutching their chest in increasing agony. Upon arrival, one runs up to a member … Continue reading Pints at the Pub →