The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc (APIC) and the Community and Hospital Infection Control Association-Canada (CHICA-Canada) collaborated to craft this document, Infection prevention, control and epidemiology: Professional and practice standards. Both professional organizations affirm their responsibility to their memberships and the public they serve t...

Abstract “Queer” is a relatively recent and somewhat controversial term in African studies. Yet it proving to be productive, not only for understanding subjectivities of sexuality gender, but also situating Africa’s position the larger economy knowledge. Otu van Klinken explore productive tensions between “queer” “Africa,” aim read Africa as queer from Africa. Thus, rather than imagining polar ...

Health care and social care in the UK, as elsewhere, is increasingly expected to organise its service delivery in inter-professional arrangements. A burgeoning body of research on this work is examining the different forms that inter-professional practice actually takes. This marks a distinct departure from an early unitary view of the demands of interprofessional practice (IPP), with correspon...

This study examined the classroom practice and beliefs of two novice teachers, Anne and Rachel, during their first year of teaching and during the first year of their involvement in Project PRIME, a district-wide professional development project. The research also analysed the challenges faced by the novice teachers and the professional developer who worked with them. Using accounts of practice...

OBJECTIVE To test a causal model of the impact of (a) nursing unit context on professional nursing practice; (b) professional practice on selected organizational (nurses' work satisfaction, nursing turnover, average length of patient stay) and patient outcomes (patient satisfaction, rate of reported medication errors, and falls); and (c) nursing unit context on these same organizational and pat...

This paper describes the stepper motor position control implemented using a novel nonsingleton type-1 fuzzy logic system to update the gains of the professional proportional-integral-derivative controller running on ATMEGA 2560 microcontroller. In this work, three controllers are compared: a) the professional proportional-integral-derivative controller, b) the type-1 singleton fuzzy logic syste...

Educators in professional programs are challenged to utilize pedagogical approaches that best prepare students with knowledge, values, and skills for professional practice. Providing academic content alone may not provide the problem-solving skills necessary for practice in a complex world in which practitioners must analyze, evaluate, and revise knowledge. Thus, reflective process becomes a co...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES The purpose of this fourth part of the COLLABORATE© article series provides an expansion and application of previously presented concepts pertaining to the COLLABORATE paradigm of professional case management practice. The model is built upon a value-driven foundation that: PRIMARY PRACTICE SETTING(S):: Applicable to all health care sectors where case management is practiced....