Conceptually, the study both outlines a framework for understanding professional service firms in comparative perspective, and proffers a theorization of professionalism as a de-essentialized form of symbolic capital whose meaning is culturally contingent.
Our students were able to articulate steps of professional identity development, such as understanding professional boundaries, despite the fact that in some cases they had not even begun formal professional training.
Situational awareness has the objective of understanding professional focus and intentions.
No study has focused on understanding professional soccer players' opinions about the influence of surface type on injury.
Understanding professional practice requires an awareness of the ways in which knowledge informs practice and is developed from practice.
Carers in our study felt quite strongly that their successful involvement in care planning could enable and enhance four distinct areas of health service provision: service efficiency, service user understanding, professional communication and direct service user support.
The themes, Integrating oneself with one's future role and Towards understanding professional competence, can be regarded as two parallel developmental processes, while the theme, Experiencing clinical reality with the mentor creates incentives to learn, promotes these processes (Fig. 2).
"Excellent care for everyone in the last days and hours of life should be a common understanding between professionals, dying people and their families and between professionals themselves, about what such care should look like.
As spirituality is a relatively vague concept, understanding healthcare professionals' spiritual perspectives is important.
To gain this understanding, resource professionals need efficient and cost-effective data collection methods that can operate over vast and isolated landscapes.
