Professional-applied Physical Training in the Professional Formation System of Police Officers

Commentary: The challenge of training police officers.

Vermette et al. offer significant observations about the training of police officers working with individuals who have a mental illness. The need to have effective training that meets the expectations of line officers as well as supervisors and police chiefs is readily apparent. Law enforcement officers are routinely the first responders in situations involving mentally ill persons in crisis. T...

The Formation Process of Professional Identity in Nurses

1. Malach-Pines A. Nurseschr('39') burnout: an existential psychodynamic perspective. Journal of psychosocial nursing and mental health services. 2000;38(2):23-31. 2. Drucker PF. Peter Drucker on the profession of management: Harvard Business Press; 1998. 3. Antai-Otong D, Kongable G. Psychiatric nursing: Biological & behavioral concepts: Thomson/Delmar Learning; 2003. 4. Andrew N, Ferguson D, ...

Negligence Actions by Police Officers and Firefighters: A Need for a Professional Rescuers Rule

Professional burnout syndrome among correctional facility officers.

INTRODUCTION Correctional facilities present unique work places--the employees there work in tough, demanding and hazardous working conditions, in real life-threatening environment, subjected to physical and mental fatigue, risk of infectious diseases, work in shifts, with inadequate pay, etc. The aim of this study was to find the prevalence and level of burnout syndrome among employees working...

Applied and Professional Ethics

The development of applied ethics in recent decades has had great significance for philosophy and society. In this article, I try to characterise this field of philosophical inquiry. I also discuss the relation of applied ethics to social policy and to professional ethics. In the first part, I address the following questions: (1) What is applied ethics? (2) When and why did applied ethics appea...