Case Illustrates When Reliance on Professional Advice is Not Reasonable

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (11) ◽  
pp. 6-7
Keyword(s):  
Professional Advice

scholarly journals Dual Benefits of a Student-Assisted Interprofessional Men’s Healthy Lifestyle Pilot Program

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1133-1141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Sealey ◽  
Nadene George ◽  
Susan Gordon ◽  
Lisa Simmons
Keyword(s):  
Interprofessional Education ◽  
Health Program ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Professional Advice ◽  
Male Engagement ◽  
Health Initiatives ◽  
Overweight Adult ◽  
Activity Measures

Men are less willing to seek health professional advice than women and die more often than women from preventable causes. Therefore, it is important to increase male engagement with health initiatives. This study reports the outcomes of a student-assisted, interprofessional, 12-week health program for overweight adult males. The program included weekly health education and structured, supervised group exercise sessions. Thirteen males (participants) and 18 university students (session facilitators) completed the program. Participants were assessed for a range of health and physical activity measures and health and health profession knowledge. Participants demonstrated significant improvement in activity, knowledge, and perceptions of physical and mental function, and appreciated the guided, group sessions. Students completed an interprofessional readiness questionnaire and reported significant improvement in the understanding of the benefits of interprofessional education and of their role in health care. This program provides evidence of the dual benefit that occurs from the delivery of a student-assisted, interprofessional men’s health program to at-risk community members.

Breast-Feeding by Employed Mothers: A Reasonable Accommodation in the Work Place

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 644-647
Author(s):  
Avrum L. Katcher ◽  
Mary Grace Lanese
Keyword(s):  
Breast Feeding ◽  
Community Hospital ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Reasonable Accommodation ◽  
Professional Advice ◽  
Employed Mothers ◽  
Nursing Mothers ◽  
Breast Pump ◽  
Voluntary Community

A nonprofit voluntary community hospital, the Hunterdon Medical Center, has made a commitment to encourage breast-feeding among employees. In support of this commitment, arrangements were made for time off during the work day for nursing mothers to pump their breasts. An electric breast pump in a suitably accessible location and supportive professional advice were offered. Among those who chose to nurse their babies, it was found that mothers nursed for longer times and were more likely to continue nursing after return to employment when this program was available.

Modern Methods of Costing Insured Pension Schemes

1970 ◽  
Vol 19 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-41
Author(s):  
R. E. Snelson
Keyword(s):  
Basic Function ◽  
Cost Estimates ◽  
Professional Advice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Funding System ◽  
Pension Schemes ◽  
Modern Methods ◽  
The Subject

1. In the past, concepts of funding and methods of costing have frequently been discussed in papers submitted to the Institute and the Students' Society usually with particular emphasis on selfadministered funds. There is still scope for further thought on the subject of funding methods and it is hoped that this paper will provide an opportunity for further discussion with particular reference to insured schemes. Life offices are not in the same position as consulting actuaries since their basic function is to insure the benefits required rather than to give professional advice. At the same time they have a responsibility to ensure that their costing methods are basically sound and that the issues involved are not misrepresented to their prospective and current policyholders. In recent years there has been a tremendous demand for final salary arrangements using the controlled funding system of administration but little attempt has been made to codify the principles which ought to be followed in making cost estimates.

scholarly journals Advice to purchasing authorities

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 164-165
Author(s):  
Peter Urwin
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Health Care Needs ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
District Health ◽  
Professional Advice ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Provision Of Services ◽  
Second Year

We are now well into the second year of the separation of purchaser and provider functions in the National Health Service. District health authorities as purchasers of services are required to assess the health care needs of their population (NHS Management Executive, 1991a) and seek professional advice regarding both the need for, and the provision of, services. The NHS Management Executive acknowledges that local clinicians in provider units will continue to make a major contribution to this advice (NHS Management Executive, 1991b).

scholarly journals Contribution to the knowledge of early geotechnics during the twentieth century: Ralph Peck

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-15
Author(s):  
Antonio Lara-Galera ◽  
Rubén Galindo-Aires ◽  
Gonzalo Guillán-Llorente
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Soil Mechanics ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ◽  
The United States ◽  
Professional Advice ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Structural Engineer ◽  
Important People

Abstract. Ralph B. Peck (1912–2008), graduate and doctor of philosophy in civil engineering (1934 and 1937 respectively) from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was one of the major contributors to the development of geotechnics in the twentieth century. Born in Winnipeg (Manitoba) as an American national, he was influenced from childhood by the world of civil engineering through his father, Orwin K. Peck, who was a civil engineer, mainly as a structural engineer in the railway sector. In the absence of job offers as a structural engineer, Ralph Peck arrived at Harvard University in 1938 to attend the soil mechanics courses taught by Arthur Casagrande, which guided Peck's professional career towards geotechnics. In addition to Casagrande, Peck had the opportunity to meet and work with other very important people related to geotechnics: Albert E. Cummings, Laurits Bjerrum, Alec W. Skempton and especially Karl Terzaghi, with whom he established a great friendship, in addition to providing support, professional advice and performing important work, such as the Chicago Subway Works. Peck actively dedicated himself to consulting work, which led him to visit 44 states within the United States and 28 countries on five continents. In addition, he also participated in research work where he was asked and was a committed lecturer at the University of Illinois, where he was a professor for 32 years. The objective of this paper is to analyse, through Peck's biography, his contribution to the field of geotechnics based on his research, teaching and consultancy work, and through the influence of Peck on other important people in the field, such as Karl Terzaghi.

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