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With concerns about competency and safety increasing, demand for building control surveyors is likewise on the rise – so one training programme is seeking to attract new recruits into the profession

Proportionality and competence are central to the risk-based approach for external wall assessment recommended by a new code of practice

Professionals who take care of the elderly, particularly in health establishments, have several identities, both helpers in the relationship with the elderly and specialists in practice in interprofessional interactions, they constantly adapt to the context, to the individuals and the reality. This double identity raises questions about the skills of these professionals who both must be able to present human qualities of listening, empathy in their exchanges with the elderly but also strictly professional capacities including mastery of the specialized lexicon and the practice specific implicit in interprofessional communications. For this article, we will use a corpus collected from both a training organization for care and aid professionals and a health facility for the elderly. We will focus on interprofessional communications through the issue of interdiscursiveness in oral transmissions. Professionals do use discourse to justify the care provided or to report elements that they consider important to submit to other professionals as part of the follow-up of care for the elderly. Through this issue of interdiscusivity, we will see that the discourses shared in oral transmissions are implicit specific to professional practice, mastered by all members of the community of practice.

How to understand diversity in citizens’ care attitudes: an exploratory study in the Netherlands. Door als professional in gesprek te gaan over opvattingen, kun je wensen over de te verlenen zorg en wie wat doet verhelderen, wat de samenwerking met mantelzorgers ten goede komt. Gezien de verwachting dat het aantal potentiële helpers zal afnemen, zou het bijvoorbeeld goed zijn als de overheid extra aandacht besteed aan burgers die minder sterke zorgopvattingen hebben en dus waarschijnlijk minder snel mantelzorg zullen gaan verlenen.

Since the 2000s, consulting professionals have explicitly been claiming to detain “language” skills and knowledge, whereas it was previously a question of “writing” or “storytelling”. Our doctoral contract, financed by the CIFRE scheme within a consultancy agency (as an applied PhD agreement), allowed us to take a closer look at the discourse embodiment of this knowledge, which plays a vital part in conditioning the production of corporate discourse, and which is at the heart of our study. This article proposes to revisit these metadiscourses in order to explain 1) what these different kinds of knowledge are and how they are organised into a system, an ideology, 2) how they influence the professional practices of consultancy service providers, both when prospecting for new clients and during the course of an assignment, and 3) how this contributes to the promotion of consultancy professionals’ expertise. The aim is to show how theories of language, professional writing practices and the status of the expert are articulated, and how this contributes to the socio-professional structures and symbolism of corporate discourses.

A intervenção individualizada estruturada através do treino personalizado é uma ferramenta importante para os profissionais de exercício físico e um serviço de potencial relevo na saúde e bem-estar dos praticantes. O treino personalizado é uma prática desenvolvida nacionalmente por milhares de profissionais e relativamente comum em vários contextos, onde os ginásios e health clubs se destacam em particular. Considerando a reduzida produção nacional de literatura neste tópico, e assumindo a importância e relevância da emissão de recomendações atualizadas e que derivem de limitações concretas observadas em contexto de prática, este artigo apresenta como objetivo principal emitir orientações e recomendações operacionais que permitam uma aferição e regulação do trabalho implementado neste contexto, visando uma reflexão crítica e melhoria do serviço prestado. As recomendações emitidas também procuram, em acréscimo ao apoio associado ao desempenho da função profissional, ajudar na clarificação do que deverá constituir e delimitar a prestação deste serviço perante a visão de um praticante, apontando um caminho que vise uma uniformização de comportamentos e ações ética e profissionalmente recomendáveis, que possam e devam ser assumidas na prestação do treino personalizado, e permitam criar uma imagem social mais clara, objetiva e delimitada deste serviço individualizado.

Members have embarked on the initial phase of an RICS programme to help them assess external wall systems for shorter low- to medium-risk residential buildings

Grounded in intimate moments of family life in and out of hospitals, this book explores the hope that inspires us to try to create lives worth living, even when no cure is in sight. The Paradox of Hope focuses on a group of African American families in a multicultural urban environment, many of them poor and all of them with children who have been diagnosed with serious chronic medical conditions. Cheryl Mattingly proposes a narrative phenomenology of practice as she explores case stories in this highly readable study. Depicting the multicultural urban hospital as a border zone where race, class, and chronic disease intersect, this theoretically innovative study illuminates communities of care that span both clinic and family and shows how hope is created as an everyday reality amid trying circumstances.