Can the revised UK code direct practice?

Can the revised UK code direct practice?

The Nursing and Midwifery Council, the United Kingdom regulator of nursing and midwifery has recently revised its professional code of practice. This article begins by arguing that a professional code must be capable of sustaining close reading and of action guidance. Using four exemplar clauses, it is argued that the new revised code does not meet this purpose. First, I show that in setting ou...

Effective practice with e - portfolios : How can the UK experience inform practice ?

This paper introduces the background to the JISC work within the e-portfolio domain in the UK and presents an overview of past and current activities and the drivers for these developments. This is followed by a review of JISC’s approach at drawing out the learning and implications for e-portfolio practice from this extensive collection of work and its dissemination. The analysis of twenty one ...

Revised Australian Code of Practice for the care and use of animals for scientific purposes.

Reference dosimetry on TomoTherapy: an addendum to the 1990 UK MV dosimetry code of practice.

The current UK code of practice for high-energy photon therapy dosimetry (Lillicrap et al 1990 Phys. Med. Biol. 35 1355-60) gives instructions for measuring absorbed dose to water under reference conditions for megavoltage photons. The reference conditions and the index used to specify beam quality require that a machine be able to set a 10 cm × 10 cm field at the point of measurement. TomoTher...

Notes for revised form of atompaw code

PAW calculations require a set of basis and projector functions which are denoted (in the notation of previous work[1, 2, 3, 4]) |φi (r)〉, |φ̃i (r)〉, and |p̃i (r)〉, for the all-electron basis functions, pseudopotential basis functions, and projector functions, respectively. Here the “a” superscript denotes the atom index (which is suppressed in most of the remainder of this section), and the “i” ...