As nurses undertake more specialist roles, strategies need to be in place to ensure competencies are maintained. University College London Hospitals has developed a competency framework to support personal and professional development of nurses in specialist roles.

SETTING An orthopaedic interprofessional training ward manned by students at a University Hospital. OBJECTIVE To assess to what extent students from different undergraduate programmes evaluated the effects of a 2-week rotation at the ward on their professional roles and the value of teamwork within health care. METHOD A questionnaire was filled in by 841 students by the end of a 2-week rota...

Background: Observance of professional ethics by teachers and educators plays a very important role in creating a favorable ethical climate in the educational environment. Teachers' professional ethics have been discussed from numerous philosophical perspectives. In the meantime, one of the philosophers of existentialism who is particularly concerned with the issue of ethics in the human world ...

BACKGROUND Effective interprofessional collaboration requires that team members share common perceptions and expectations of each other's roles. OBJECTIVE Describe and compare residents' and nurses' perceptions and expectations of their own and each other's professional roles in the context of an Internal Medicine ward. METHODS A convenience sample of 14 residents and 14 nurses volunteers f...

As members of a public trust profession, pharmacists are the most accessible medical team members. Therefore, every pharmacist must know scope their professional roles (PR) and functions (PF). The study aimed to detail major PR into pooled set PF. research materials were provisions World Health Organization, International Pharmaceutical Federation, scientific works on pharmacists. Methods criti...

The chapter presents a case study of a training course involving Italian early-secondary school teachers, which focuses on online tutors’ activities and roles. After a brief literature review, it relates the topic to the national e-learning training context, clarifying the tutors’ expected tasks within the evaluated teachers’ professional training experience. The aim is to analyze the roles pla...