The purpose of this article is to reexamine the current use of what is to count as evaluation evidence to inform professional practice. The provision of evaluation evidence to inform decision making has long been an aspiration, albeit with varying degrees of success. However the need to reexamine the utility of this endeavour has arisen in the contemporary culture of evidence-based policy and p...

It is a famous q uote that “Every structur e is supported on soils or rock, t hose that aren’t, either fly, float, or fall over”. Soils are natural deposits on which humans have no control. Soils at no two sites are likely to be the same. Even, at a particular point at a sit e, different types of soils exist at different depths. Several theories and formulas have been developed since the birth ...

Students taking programmes of study leading to registration as a nurse or other health and social care professional, must be assessed in practice to ensure that they are competent in a range of skills. As practice placements become more difficult to source, the use of inter-professional assessment is becoming an increasingly important facet of assessment for students in health and social care. ...

The Standards of Practice and Standards of Professional Performance in Oncology Nutrition Care serve as a professional resource for self-evaluation and professional development for RDs specializing in oncology nutrition practice. Application of these documents in clinical practice presents the opportunity for quality improvement in oncology nutrition services provided by the RD. Just as the pro...

BACKGROUND the workforce is ageing. The contribution of older workers is considerable. Their occupational health profiles differ from those of younger workers. OBJECTIVE we wished to establish whether consideration has been given by regulatory and professional bodies of the impact of ageing-related conditions such as dementia on professional practice. METHODS We e-mailed a questionnaire to ...

Aim and intended learning outcomes The aim of this article is to examine how nurses can broaden their scope of practice in the area of catheterisation, taking into consideration the principles stated by the UKCC in the Scope of Professional Practice ( 1992 ). After reading this article you should be able to: ■ Discuss the ways in which broadening the scope of practice in relation to urinary cat...

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...