OBJECTIVE This article links two dimensions of occupational therapy within the context of professionalism: the role of caring and the implications of occupational therapy being a predominantly female profession. METHOD Seven occupational therapists representing various levels of professional experience were interviewed to determine (a) how female occupational therapists perceive caring and (b...

With different nuances and from diverse analyses, scholars agree to maintain that the interaction of law and natural philosophy contributed to originate distinctive conceptual categories such as facts, certainty, and probability during the early-modern period. From this historiographical account, Francis Bacon has been highlighted as one of the most influential authors who merged legal thinking...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this article is to describe chiropractic professional identity as espoused by the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic. DISCUSSION Professional identity is a construct that begins formation prior to career selection, can be considered the backbone of health care education, and has been linked to career success. Los Angeles College of Chiropractic's professional ident...

Introduction What is `safeguarding'? The Victoria Climbie inquiry Nursing evidence to the inquiry Inquiry recommendations The Government response National Service Frameworks A safeguarding guide for nurses and midwives The universality of nursing and midwifery Professional accountability Core attributes The scale of the problem Underpinning philosophy Outline of the remaining chapters Messages...

The foundation and history of the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Hypnose (Netherlands Society of Hypnosis or Nvvh) is described. The year 2001 marks the 70th anniversary of the Nvvh's creation. The article describes the accomplishments, leadership, and philosophy of the Society across the decades. Current professional and training directions are discussed.

This paper describes a work in progress within the evolving transactional learning environment at Glasgow Graduate School of Law and places this development within the wider context of our philosophy of professional legal education. The pedagogic rationale and models on which our work is based are described and the practical implications of the implementation discussed.

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In this paper, I reconstruct Alasdair MacIntyre’s aretaic, practical philosophy, drawing out its implications for professional ethics in general and the practice of teaching in particular. After reviewing the moral theory as a whole, I examine MacIntyre’s notion of internal goods. Defined within the context of practices, such goods give us reason to reject the very idea of applied ethics. Being...

Drug taking by young people has been described and debated almost to saturation point by professional and lay people alike. This is not only because of the many connecting professional links in medicine, the law, the social sciences, moral philosophy, psychology, and education, but also because it has a personal impact on every young family in the country. No parent who has the welfare of his c...

OBJECTIVE To understand students' and tutors' perceptions of the development of clinical competencies for the delivery of comprehensive medication management services in an experiential learning project linked to a Brazilian school of pharmacy. METHODS An autoethnographic qualitative study was carried out based on participant observation, focus groups and individual interviews with students a...