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Expanding Scope of Practice for Ontario Regulated Health Professionals during COVID-19
Get PDFOn 21 April 2021, the Ontario government issued a new order under the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act, 1990 that authorized regulated health professionals to practice beyond their regular scope of practice when working in hospital settings and providing pandemic-related care. This order required that professionals use their best judgement in practice and work within hospital-assigned duties and privileges. It also allowed health professionals licensed in other provinces or territories to practise without an Ontario license. The goal of this temporary scope of practice expansion and suspension of licensure requirements was to expand health workforce capacity to care for COVID-19 patients. In place for just over a year, this pandemic workforce policy reform was instituted without warning to the health profession regulators in the province and raised questions about how concerns around competence to practise in these expanded roles would be resolved. While there is no clear evaluation plan for this temporary pandemic policy, restrictions and expansions to health professional scope of practice will continue to have broader implications given the worsening workforce crisis.
Le 21 avril 2021, le gouvernement de l\u27Ontario a émis une nouvelle ordonnance en vertu de la Loi de 1990 sur la protection civile et la gestion des situations d\u27urgence, qui autorise les professionnels de la santé réglementés à exercer au-delà de leur champ d\u27exercice habituel lorsqu\u27ils travaillent en milieu hospitalier et fournissent des soins liés à une pandémie. Cette ordonnance exigeait que les professionnels fassent preuve de leur meilleur jugement dans leur pratique et qu\u27ils travaillent dans le cadre des fonctions et des privilèges assignés par l\u27hôpital. Elle permettait également aux professionnels de la santé titulaires d\u27un permis dans d\u27autres provinces ou territoires d\u27exercer sans permis en Ontario. L\u27objectif de cette ordonnance temporaire était d\u27accroître la capacité du personnel de santé à prendre en charge les patients atteints du syndrome COVID-19. En place depuis un peu plus d\u27un an, cette réforme de la politique a été instituée sans avertissement et a soulevé des questions quant à la façon dont les préoccupations concernant la compétence à exercer dans ces rôles élargis seraient résolues. Bien qu\u27il n\u27y ait pas de plan d\u27évaluation clair pour cette politique temporaire, les restrictions et l\u27élargissement du champ d\u27exercice des professionnels de la santé continueront à avoir des implications plus larges étant donné l\u27aggravation de la crise des effectifs.
Carnap\u27s Geometrical Methodology: Explication as a transfer principle
Get PDFIn this paper, I will offer a novel perspective on Carnapian explication, understanding it as a philosophical analogue of the transfer principle methodology that originated in nineteenth-century projective geometry. Building upon the historical influence that projective geometry exerted on Carnap’s philosophy, I will show how explication can be modeled as a kind of transfer principle that connects, relative to a given task and normatively constrained by the desiderata chosen by the explicators, the functional properties of concepts belonging to different conceptual frameworks. Moreover, I will demonstrate how, in light of this characterization, we can better appreciate the evolution of Carnap’s metaphilosophy
Bible Studies: Frank Russell and the "Book of Books"
Get PDFReligion was as much a concern for Frank Russell throughout his life as it was for younger brother Bertrand and their father before them. Each advocated its rational study untainted by Christian dogma. The chance discovery of an amusing film review by Frank Russell of the biblical epic The Dawn of the World (1921) became the catalyst for an exploration of this theme in the paper that follows, as well as providing the opportunity to explore the foundations of Frank’s agnosticism and demonstrate his erudition and wit through the reprinting of his article “The Bible on the Film”
ePortfolio to support professional development during experiential learning placements: Guided by students-as-partners theory, enabled through students-as-partners practice
Get PDFThis case study applies a students-as-partners focus to the use of ePortfolio concepts during experiential learning placements. In describing our project and as evident here, in referring to ePortfolio in the singular, we cite it as an abstract concept, while the plural reference marks practice, in this study taking the form of student-generated instances of ePortfolio use, in particular as detailed in the ePortfolios experiences of two final-year students on experiential placement in a pharmacy programme. These two students used their ePortfolio to document and reflect critically on their experiential placements, showcasing their own student-generated ePortfolios at a symposium co-hosted by student partners, their placement preceptor, and other mentors. This student co-developed case study summarises key findings, including how the use of ePortfolio can support learner agency, and outlines recommendations for further incorporating ePortfolio use in experiential learning contexts. While grounded in the context of an undergraduate pharmacy programme, much of the study will resonate with colleagues based in other disciplines aligned with competency frameworks. The staff-student collaborative approach explored in this case study is likely of interest to students, educators, preceptors, tutors, mentors, and others developing curricula with an ePortfolio component
Co-facilitating pedagogy circles for diversity, equity, and inclusion: Two student-partner experiences
Get PDFPerformative Print: A Printing Anomaly in The Coblers Prophesie
No full textSignature F2r of The Coblers Prophesie (1594) by Robert Wilson brings the reader to an abrupt halt – it contains a page-stopping stage direction in gargantuan type. This article examines whether the outsized print was a botched job by the printer Thomas Scarlet or an intentional ploy to engage the reader. The anomaly suggests that printers exercised agency in textual production and collaborated in the creative impact of printed material. Play-texts exist at the intersection of print and performance, and this case study poses larger questions about the complex relationship between the theatre and the printing house in early modern England
‘Heaven guide him to thy husband’s cudgel’: Falstaff as Male Witch in The Merry Wives of Windsor
No full textThis essay argues that in Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, when the merry wives dress Falstaff as the old woman of Brentford, they reveal his true character by visually associating him with a witch and thus force the men of Windsor to punish him for his crimes. Falstaff’s behaviour matches the social disruption of the male witch; furthermore, his position as a new and unestablished member of a community, his gender, and the fact that the authorities of Windsor are inept make it difficult for the merry wives to successfully accuse him without appealing to popular witchcraft belief
Review of: Praveen Jha, Avinash Kumar and Yamini Mishra (eds) (2020) Labouring Women: Issues and Challenges in Contemporary India
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Employing customizable digital observation tools to support classroom-focused pedagogical partnership
Get PDFThis case study examines the use of the Generalized Observation and Reflection Platform (GORP)—a digital tool for developing fully customizable observation protocols as well as for collecting, analyzing, and reporting quantitative observation data—within the University of Notre Dame’s Inclusive Pedagogy Partnership. We found that the tool enhanced collaboration between partners in articulating and setting goals for their work and in highlighting and conceptualizing growth in the classroom. It also improved the efficiency of classroom observations and generated visual and quantitative data that usefully supplemented more traditional qualitative observations. Because of a steep learning curve, however, providing extensive time and support for partners in incorporating GORP was key to its successful implementation. We also suggest that GORP may serve as a useful tool for helping partners move between product- and process-oriented understandings of their work and for empowering student partners to take ownership of their observations