Patient Experience of Antihypertensive Medication Education & Implications for OT Practitioners

Implications of moral psychology for medical education

The medication experience: preliminary evidence of its value for patient education and counseling on chronic medications.

OBJECTIVE To describe medication therapy management (MTM) pharmacists' encounters with patients' medication experiences, to examine the utility of the medication experience in practice, and to explore the value of the medication experience in patient education and counseling on medications. METHODS A focus group of 10 MTM pharmacists, and 1 pharmacist's 9-month practice diary were analyzed to...

OT Practitioners’ and OT Students’ Perceptions of Entry-Level Competency for Occupational Therapy Practice

This study examined occupational therapy (OT) practitioners’ and OT students’ perceptions of the importance of 12 specific OT-related entry-level competency skills and the number of weeks required to consistently demonstrate skills for entry-level competency. The results indicated that, on average, practitioners (n = 39) and students (n = 38) agreed that all of the items were important. However...

Multiculturalism, Religion, and Disability: Implications for Special Education Practitioners

Religious beliefs permeate many aspects of culture. Often, however, educators are reluctant to discuss religious beliefs when working with children with developmental and intellectual disabilities and their families. Ignoring the salience of religious teachings about the nature and meaning of disabilities as they relate to both individuals and society, however, limits the opportunity to fully u...

Rumi's epistemology and implications for moral education

From its very beginnings, man has always been a curious and inquisitive creature looking for goals to reach him, but what a destination is, where it is, and who it is has been an important issue that makes people more curious and purposeful. He believes that the structure of human beliefs is shaped by his moral characteristics and that the moral contaminants of human knowledge are distorted. Th...