2021-2022 Pivot Hub MeetingsJuly 27, 2021AnnouncementOur first meeting of the academic year is on Tuesday, September 14th, from 4-5 pm EST. All meetings will be held virtually this year on the second Tuesday of the month at 4:00 PM. Call in information will be sent... Read more...New project has been added!June 30, 2021AnnouncementDrs. Vitaliy Popov and Milisa Manojlovich are embarking on an exciting new project that will explore whether shared understanding between physicians and nurses can be identified using a new tool. We will use Epistemic Network Analysis (ENA) to model communication... Read more...Pivot Hub Publication in Cancer NursingJune 21, 2021Featured NewsA new article of interest to Pivot Hub members has been published ahead of print in Cancer Nursing. The article was authored by Kaycee Crist, Dr. Megan Lafferty, Dr. Elizabeth Umberfield, and Dr. Milisa Manojlovich and is titled, “Which Factors... Read more...2020-2021 PivotHub MeetingsAugust 20, 2020AnnouncementOur first meeting of the academic year is on Tuesday, September 8th, from 4-5 pm EST. All meetings will be held virtually this year on the second Tuesday of the month at 4:00 PM. Call in information will be sent... Read more...Blog Entry – June 2020 – CollaborationJune 11, 2020Announcement / Featured NewsSo much for blog entries every month! We have all been affected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the disease COVID-19 in one way or another. I hope you are all well during these unprecedented times. I’m not sure if... Read more...Blog Entry – March 2020 – CareMarch 18, 2020Featured NewsIf you’ve been paying attention and following along every month, you’ll note that blog posts are all over the place. For example, waaay back in September I briefly mentioned that there are four principles of video reflexive ethnography (VRE), but... Read more...February Blog – What do you see?February 17, 2020Featured NewsThe Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin is perhaps best known for developing the optical illusion known as the Rubin vase, shown in the picture to the right. Is it a picture of a black vase, or is it a picture of... Read more...January Blog – ReflexivityJanuary 14, 2020Featured NewsAuguste Rodin’s famous sculpture, The Thinker, is a great example of a man engaging in reflection. The man is sitting on a rock and by his posture demonstrates that he is deep in thought, reflecting on something. He is engaged... Read more...December Blog: What’s behind the curtain?December 12, 2019Featured NewsIn the classic movie The Wizard of Oz there is a memorable scene where, thanks to wonder dog Toto, Dorothy looks behind a curtain and finds out what is really going on. In healthcare clinicians pull curtains around patients to... Read more...Blog Entry – November 2019 – The Power of ObservationNovember 5, 2019Featured NewsNo one questions the value of observation as a method to collect data. The whole field of anthropology would likely cease to exist if observation were to be banned! For those of us who let video cameras do the observation... Read more...
