LESSONS FROM ANOTHER PROFESSION

Said another way: seeing the nursing profession from a different perspective: nurstry? Why not!

Nurses need to identify themselves through a true revolution. Nurses should be treated as equals with physicians, and nursing as a profession that is capable of independent practice. For this very reason, the term "Nurstry" was invented by the authors to refer to the science and caring art of nursing. Nurstry includes nursing knowledge developed by nurstrists and nurses in the global nursing vi...

Your profession needs you (lessons in medical leadership).

After finishing residency, you are fortunate to find an excellent job as an attending emergency physician in a busy community teaching hospital. The physician group is well established, with an equitable shift distribution and a practice plan to support the residents’ teaching program. The emergency department (ED) sees high volumes, so there are always challenging, acutely ill patients to trea...

The Profession Elite Interviewing in a Divided Society: Lessons from Northern Ireland

This article explores the particular challenges facing researchers interviewing political elites in a divided society. With evidence from interviews with former ministers in the Northern Ireland power-sharing government from 1999 to 2002, I demonstrate that researchers must consider a number of concerns relating to identity, bias and the polarised positions of politicians in a divided society. ...

Light from the flames of Hell: remembrance and lessons of the Holocaust for today's medical profession.

Improving Links Between Information Systems Research and Practice - Lessons from the Medical Profession

There has been a great deal of debate about the status of Information Systems as an academic discipline, its progress and its continued survival. Most of these critiques have been very inward-looking, and have focused either on research methods or the need for a unifying theory for information systems. This paper argues that as an applied discipline, IS will not achieve legitimacy by having a u...