The mission of the Master of Science in Occupational Therapy program is to educate and prepare occupational therapists to promote health and well-being through occupation as practitioners, consultants, educators, and researchers in a variety of socio-cultural, professional, and institutional contexts.
The study captures the views of the key healthcare professionals involved in antibiotic prescribing in LTCFs, general practitioners, consultants, nurses and pharmacists.
Although practitioners, consultants, and experts have written a great deal about the value of synergy [ 19, 24- 28], health services researchers have only recently begun theorizing about, developing measures of, and empirically assessing synergy in collaborative partnerships to improve health [ 29- 33].
Nurse led walk-in centres were first established in the UK in 2001, and consultations were predominantly provided by nurses (nurse practitioners, advanced nurse practitioners, or consultant nurses).
It is, instead, a distillation of this author's and others' experiences in acting either as a practitioner or consultant, or as leader of a human factors unit in industries that have at times been reluctant or even hostile about the perceived 'invasion' of human factors.
Regardless of the field or industry, every practitioner, artist, consultant and professional requires a capable set of tools to get their jobs done efficiently.
The CHC nurse is a specialist nurse running the CHC independently, with a paediatrician or general practitioner as consultant.
Hospital provider characteristics did not explain the observed inequities by age, sex, deprivation, rurality, and ethnic group, suggesting causes of inequity might lie further down the care pathway at the level of the patient, general practitioner, or consultant.
One strength of our analysis is that we were able to consider whether hospital variables explained observed inequities but found no evidence they were important, suggesting causes of inequity might lie further down the care pathway, at the level of the patient, general practitioner, or consultant.
