AIM To describe career pathways of consultant nurses/midwives and identify postholders views on key factors in role initiation, development and progression to inform future development and appointment of nurse/midwife consultants in National Health Service Scotland. BACKGROUND Nurse/midwife consultants represent the highest levels of clinical practice. Given the Scottish Executive Health Depa...

1Faculty of Nursing, Edmonton Clinic Health Academy (ECHA), University of Alberta, 11405-87th Avenue, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 1C9 2Department of Nursing, Cyprus University of Technology, 15 Vragadinou Street, 3041 Limassol, Cyprus 3Griffith University, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia 4Abu Dhabi Health Service Company, P.O. Box 109090, Abu Dhabi, UAE 5Hadassah Hebrew University Me...

1Flaherty Comparative Oncology Laboratory, Donaldson-Atwood Cancer Clinic, The Animal Medical Center, 510 East 62nd Street, New York, NY 10021, USA 2Swim Across America Laboratory, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA 3Genitourinary Oncology Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021,...

The proposal that psychologists should pursue prescriptive authority was first put forth 25 years ago, and it has been an official goal of the American Psychological Association for 15 years. Since then some form of prescriptive authority has been approved by three states, the Territory of Guam, and three branches of the military. Psychologists are also eligible to prescribe in the Public Healt...

BY H. SHUM1,*, E. A. GAFFNEY1,2 AND D. J. SMITH2,3 1Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, 24-29 St Giles’, Oxford OX1 3LB, UK 2Centre for Human Reproductive Science, Birmingham Women’s National Health Service Foundation Trust, Metchley Park Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TG, UK 3School of Mathematics and School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston...