New Country, New Profession

Globalization of Nursing Profession During a New Pandemic

Surrogate gestator: a new and honorable profession.

New Role, New Country: introducing US physician assistants to Scotland

This paper draws from research commissioned by the Scottish Executive Health Department (SEHD). It provides a case study in the introduction of a new health care worker role into an already well established and "mature" workforce configuration It assesses the role of US style physician assistants (PAs), as a precursor to planned "piloting" of the PA role within the National Health Service (NHS)...

New sciences in a ‘new country’ – the Irish paradox

It has been argued that Ireland re-invented itself over the past quarter-century as the Celtic Tiger, with its open economy, modernising society, young population, flexible education, partnership politics, strident consumerism, and global cultural reach. In that re-invention, first technology, then increasingly, ‘research’, ‘science’ and ‘knowledge’ have been important themes. Where the public ...

New country records of reptiles from Laos

FOUR SPECIES OF REPTILES, OF WHICH ONE IS REPRESENTED BY ONE OF ITS SUBSPECIES, ARE RECORDED FOR THE FIRST TIME FROM LAOS: Cyrtodactylusphongnhakebangensis, Lycodonfutsingensis, and Lycodonruhstrati, as Lycodonruhstratiabditus, from limestone forests in Khammouane Province and Cyrtodactyluspseudoquadrivirgatus from hill evergreen forest in Salavan Province. These discoveries of lizards and snak...