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Karolina Kuberska
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Anthropologist, knitter, migrant, reader.
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Hey, @royal-mail.bsky.social I think your bot is broken haha
A screenshot of AI tracking assistance on Royal Mail website. I wrote "there are no options" to which the assistant responds "please select one of the options" to which I responded "there are no options" to which the assistant responded "please select one of the options" - this is going in circles
September 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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📢New publication📢

Respiratory Clinicians’ Views on Offering “Rescue Packs” to Patients Discharged After COPD Exacerbation: Qualitative Interview Study
doi.org/10.1080/1541...

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A diagram of clinicians’ considerations around offering rescue packs to patients discharged following COPD exacerbation There are three nested ovals depicting different levels of considerations, with text inside. The largest oval has the heading “Macro-level considerations” and includes three text boxes: antibiotic stewardship; preventing hospital admissions; and pressures in the NHS. The middle oval has the heading “Meso-level considerations” and includes three text boxes: following national guidance and audit requirements; hospital clinicians’ access to patients’ primary care records; and local access to primary care. The smallest oval has the heading “Micro-level considerations” and includes two text-boxes: patient’s self-management skills and empowering patients. Screenshot of the paper's pdf. Title: Respiratory Clinicians’ Views on Offering “Rescue Packs” to Patients Discharged After COPD Exacerbation: Qualitative Interview Study Authors: Karolina Kuberska, Graham Martin, John R. Hurst, Mona Bafadhel Abstract “Rescue packs” for COPD exacerbations, consisting of a course of antibiotics and steroids, have become part of self-management strategies for many patients living with COPD. Currently, in the UK, rescue packs are guideline-recommended but not routinely offered on hospital discharge. They are, however, commonly prescribed by primary care teams. This study examined hospital-based respiratory clinicians’ views on offering patients rescue packs following hospitalisation for COPD exacerbations. We conducted 24 individual and joint semi-structured interviews via telephone or videocall with 30 clinicians (respiratory consultants, respiratory registrars and specialist nurses) in 20 UK hospitals to understand variation in practice around, and views on, offering rescue packs to discharged COPD patients. Interview data were analysed using the constant comparative method. Clinicians’ views on offering rescue packs were a mixture of concerns and recognition of potential benefits. Concerns included antimicrobial resistance, individual overuse of antibiotics, and potential side effects of steroids, especially in patients with poorer understanding of their own condition, with lower self-management skills, or who found it difficult to access primary care. Recognised benefits included the potential to prevent future exacerbations, empowering patients by supporting COPD self-management, and circumventing the difficulties of securing an urgent primary care appointment. There was a consensus that supporting patients in self-management of COPD was key to effective care. Given the increasing role of self-management for patients living with COPD, it is vital to ensure that patients are able to appropriately use rescue packs.
June 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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📢New publication alert 📢

@instagraham.bsky.social and I wrote a paper!

What Is an Identifier Good for?
Issues in Using Visual Identifiers to Improve Care for People With Dementia in Hospital

doi.org/10.1111/jan....
Screenshot of the journal header with the paper title and authors: DISCURSIVE PAPER Open Access What Is an Identifier Good for? Issues in Using Visual Identifiers to Improve Care for People With Dementia in Hospital Karolina Kuberska, Graham Martin First published: 08 May 2025 https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.17039 'ejournals@cambridge - find full text' Aims To examine practical, ethical, and organisational implications of the use of a key technology deployed in the care of hospitalised people with dementia—visual identifiers—through a comparative analysis with parallel interventions in other spheres of healthcare and social activity. Design Discursive paper Methods We contrast visual identification systems used for hospitalised patients with dementia with other, ostensibly similar, systems to understand how they differ in key characteristics: what they disclose, to whom and with what intended consequence Results Certain distinctive features of the ways identifier systems are used to improve dementia care appear particularly consequential for their impact. Given how much is expected of such identifiers, they are likely to fail at least a proportion of patients. Conclusion We argue that it is important to critically evaluate the interests served by visual identifiers, identifying the dimensions of quality they can enhance and those that may be negatively impacted. Implications for the Profession and/or Patient Care Visual identifiers for people with dementia can contribute to the ‘taskification’ of nursing care, implying that achieving person-centred care is a matter of following defined protocols rather than an emergent, relational, time-consuming process. Staff may end up prioritising risk avoidance and hospital routines (tasks that are measurable and auditable) rather than embracing the unpredictability of developing relationships with patients Impact Visual identifiers are a part of well-established strategies to improve hospital care for those with cognitive impairment. While these identifiers aim to prompt healthcare professionals to deliver individually tailored care, research suggests that they are unable to consistently ensure the desirable quality of care. Understanding influences on how they are deployed can help reshape the expectations placed on such low-tech interventions and inform more reflective use
May 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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I craft weird postcards in which I put words into famous people's mouths and I am pretty happy with this one.
Photo of Francis Ford Coppola directing a scene in the Godfather, surrounded by crew, with a speech bubble that says "express your feelings, focus on rage"
February 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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📢New publication!📢

Sarah Turner and I wrote a paper about how experiences of #pregnancyloss have been described in the UK press around the Baby Loss Awareness Week over the last decade.

#BLAW #babyloss #miscarriage #stillbirth

Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Screenshot of an abstact: Title: ‘Heartbreak Gives Way to Hope After Grieving’: A Critical Analysis of Personal Stories of Pregnancy Loss in the UK Press Authors: Karolina Kuberska & Sarah Turner Abstract: Pregnancy loss continues to occupy an uncomfortable space in public discourse. This article analyses articles in the UK press published between 2013 and 2023 referencing the Baby Loss Awareness Week (BLAW) that focus on narratives of personal experience of pregnancy loss. These narratives sit between the personal and the public, and constitute examples of public grieving that serve a range of purposes, from the expression of continuing bonds with the miscarried or stillborn baby, the desire to share one's experience of loss, and often to the wish to translate this experience into something positive. We draw on Finch's concept of ‘displaying families’, considering how they construct an identity for the baby who never lived and demonstrate continuing bonds with them. By analysing how this ‘identity work’ is made public, we explore how pregnancy loss is presented in public media as a transformative teleological experience for parents.
January 6, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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This is the best slide I've ever made
Above the slide it says "next slide", below: Black slide with colourful "WOW!" in capital letters, rainbow strip at the bottom, below the slide the prompt reads "no notes".
December 16, 2024 at 3:04 PM