Clinical Instruction for Professional Practice

Professional Practice Committee for the 2013 Clinical Practice Recommendations

Whiteboards: mediating professional tensions in clinical practice.

In this paper we argue that whiteboards in clinical settings play a hybrid role: communicating inter- and intraprofessional directives, mediating professional tensions, and mitigating potentially face-threatening acts. The data upon which this paper is based emanate from two independently conducted ethnographic studies: the first explored a range of nurse-nurse and nurse-doctor communication pr...

Changing Professional Practice Theory and Practice of Clinical Guidelines Implementation

Health care professionals may have difficulties in keeping up-to-date with the overwhelming and fast growing volume of new scientific evidence for good clinical practice. Often there is an unacceptable time lag between the time of having a valid research basis for a specific procedure and the point when the procedure has been adopted in practice. This may lead to suboptimal care. Clinical guide...

Comparison of dental hygiene clinical instructor and student opinions of professional preparation for clinical instruction.

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the degree of professional preparation among clinical instructors employed in baccalaureate dental hygiene programs in the U.S. and to examine clinical instructors' and students' perceived need for educational preparation. The data-generating sample consisted of 285 dental hygiene clinical students and 76 dental hygiene clinical instructors fr...

Clinical and professional ethics guidelines for the practice of thyroidology.

Avariety of medical professional societies have developed ethics practice guidelines or position statements regarding specific ethics issues (1–6). The Endocrine Society published its Code of Ethics for practice in 2001 (1); however, none of the practice guidelines are specific to thyroidology. In the field of thyroidology, specific clinical ethics issues arise in different clinical contexts. F...