One has to admire the sheer optimism of modern science: I love the fact that there is such a discipline as astrobiology, whose practitioners' task is to imagine what life might be like on other planets.
The need for a modern approach is not lost on the practitioners tasked with running prisons and managing security.
Little is known about how health practitioners tasked with tackling health inequalities account for their own programmes and actions.
As transportation planning turns toward strategies associated with maximizing accessibility over minimizing travel time, this epistemological gap is problematic for practitioners tasked with reducing structural inequalities in access to opportunity across society.
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Nurse practitioners' tasks include prescribing medication, ordering diagnostic investigations, and referral to other health care practitioners.
The introduction of the NSW policies on smoke free hospitals and falls prevention saw many practitioners tasked with developing local responses using relevant HPDRGS project resources.
It is possible that, in line with findings about nurses [ 51], practitioners' task-orientation (i.e., focusing on treating the disorder) may be a barrier to recognising factors that could compromise motivation and program adherence of clients.
Practice nurses attended a half day workshop, where they met the psychological wellbeing practitioners tasked to work in their general practice and were introduced to the COINCIDE care model with an emphasis on effective liaison and delivering integrated physical and mental health care.
For practitioners, the task ahead is a difficult one.
For their part practitioners report task uncertainty, burn out and heart sink from the 'endless' struggle to coordinate and manage the care of people with multimorbidity, making the delivery of patient centred care for this population less realisable [ 9, 10].
