Laura Heffernan
Biographic Data
| ID | 387168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Heffernan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Heffernan |
| SIGNATURE | HEFFERNAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University Hospital Galway |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4092-5174 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Professing Criticism
Frailty in an Adult Acute Hospital Population
Frailty is common among older hospital inpatients. While studies describe frailty prevalence in acute hospitals, it is usually based upon retrospective hospital-coded data or brief screening on admission rather than comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA). Further, little is known about differences between pre-admission and current frailty status. Given this, we investigated the prevalence of pre-frailty and frailty among adult inpatients in a l…
The Teaching Archive
Comparison of Frailty Screening Instruments in the Emergency Department
Early identification of frailty through targeted screening can facilitate the delivery of comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) and may improve outcomes for older inpatients. As several instruments are available, we aimed to investigate which is the most accurate and reliable in the Emergency Department (ED). We compared the ability of three validated, short, frailty screening instruments to identify frailty in a large University Hospital ED. …
Axel's Classroom
Edmund Wilson's Axel's Castle (1931) has been much blamed for characterising modernist literature by an aesthetic refusal to engage with society, and for encouraging the narrow formalism of New Critical pedagogy. The recovery of Wilson's own distinctive teaching practice, however, shows that he used the book to teach modernism's development out of coterie symbolism towards social engagement and cultural criticism. Modern literature classrooms lik…
Contemporaries and Snobs
"Notation After "The Reality Effect
In "The Reality Effect," Roland Barthes reveals notation's ideological function within the realist novel; a decade later in Preparation of the Novel, Barthes reconsiders notation as the practice by which the writer provisionally makes literary meaning. Barthes's revision of his claims for the reality effect helps us see how an emerging genre-the novel of commission-pulls referential, preparatory materials into the novel in order to reimagine the …
The Common Reader and the Archival Classroom
The essay draws on archival research to reconstruct the midcentury classrooms of Cleanth Brooks and Edmund Wilson. Our description of these classrooms-the participants, texts, and the exemplary as well as the undertheorized moments gathered within them-dissolves the divisions between research and teaching, historicist and formalist methods, skeptical critics and invested common readers, disciplinary spaces and public ones, that have particularly …
"Notation After "The Reality Effect
In "The Reality Effect," Roland Barthes reveals notation's ideological function within the realist novel; a decade later in Preparation of the Novel, Barthes reconsiders notation as the practice by which the writer provisionally makes literary meaning. Barthes's revision of his claims for the reality effect helps us see how an emerging genre-the novel of commission-pulls referential, preparatory materials into the novel in order to reimagine the …
The Common Reader and the Archival Classroom
The essay draws on archival research to reconstruct the midcentury classrooms of Cleanth Brooks and Edmund Wilson. Our description of these classrooms-the participants, texts, and the exemplary as well as the undertheorized moments gathered within them-dissolves the divisions between research and teaching, historicist and formalist methods, skeptical critics and invested common readers, disciplinary spaces and public ones, that have particularly …
The Common Reader and the Archival Classroom
The essay draws on archival research to reconstruct the midcentury classrooms of Cleanth Brooks and Edmund Wilson. Our description of these classrooms-the participants, texts, and the exemplary as well as the undertheorized moments gathered within them-dissolves the divisions between research and teaching, historicist and formalist methods, skeptical critics and invested common readers, disciplinary spaces and public ones, that have particularly …
Contemporaries and Snobs
"Notation After "The Reality Effect
In "The Reality Effect," Roland Barthes reveals notation's ideological function within the realist novel; a decade later in Preparation of the Novel, Barthes reconsiders notation as the practice by which the writer provisionally makes literary meaning. Barthes's revision of his claims for the reality effect helps us see how an emerging genre-the novel of commission-pulls referential, preparatory materials into the novel in order to reimagine the …
Comparison of Frailty Screening Instruments in the Emergency Department
Early identification of frailty through targeted screening can facilitate the delivery of comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) and may improve outcomes for older inpatients. As several instruments are available, we aimed to investigate which is the most accurate and reliable in the Emergency Department (ED). We compared the ability of three validated, short, frailty screening instruments to identify frailty in a large University Hospital ED. …
Axel's Classroom
Edmund Wilson's Axel's Castle (1931) has been much blamed for characterising modernist literature by an aesthetic refusal to engage with society, and for encouraging the narrow formalism of New Critical pedagogy. The recovery of Wilson's own distinctive teaching practice, however, shows that he used the book to teach modernism's development out of coterie symbolism towards social engagement and cultural criticism. Modern literature classrooms lik…
The Teaching Archive
Professing Criticism
Frailty in an Adult Acute Hospital Population
Frailty is common among older hospital inpatients. While studies describe frailty prevalence in acute hospitals, it is usually based upon retrospective hospital-coded data or brief screening on admission rather than comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA). Further, little is known about differences between pre-admission and current frailty status. Given this, we investigated the prevalence of pre-frailty and frailty among adult inpatients in a l…
Art (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Criticism (2 works) · Emergency Medicine (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)