Essays on Profession

 Paramedicine practice involves administering emergency treatment to patients, which can also require the skill of providing grief support to patients and families. The nature of this medical specialty means that paramedics need to manage grief and stress efficiently or risk suffering detrimental physical, emotional, and...

As a relatively young profession, paramedicine has borrowed from existing medical practice in the development of its guiding ethical principles. One such principle is confidentiality. The origins of medical confidentiality go back some 2,500 years to the Hippocratic Oath. Modern confidentiality is thought to have...

Effective communication is a vital skill for any health care professional, Silverman, Kurtz, and Draper state that “Communication is a core clinical skill, an essential component of clinical competence”. Therefore, this essay will discuss how Paramedics overcame actual and potential communication barriers during an incident...

The aim of this essay will be to explore the role of paramedics in relation to the national health service (NHS) unscheduled care agenda. It will also consider the scope of practice of paramedics within the multidisciplinary team and the key drivers for change within...

Over the last 25 years, the need for a robust, highly skilled, and autonomous emergency workforce – capable of dealing with the increasingly complex health and social needs of modern society – has seen the paramedic profession undergo a significant transformation. Influenced heavily by the...

This essay will explain the importance of public confidence and professionalism within adult nursing and how the history of nursing can help us today. The essay will also include how values-based nursing is linked to professionalism and how it can help promote public trust within...

As a professional in the Architectural, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry, the reliance on practical and technical know-how is a must and cannot be negotiated. It goes without saying that the field centers around what solutions the individuals practicing can create, develop, and proffer using...

The legendary film-critic Pauline Kael (1976) called “Taxi Driver” as one of the few truly modern horror films. There are many things proving it: its cold anxiety, atrocious violence, dark colors and an insane taxi driver dreaming about the purge of dirty streets of sinful...

In Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, Robert De Niro plays Travis Bickle, a mentally disturbed Vietnam Veteran likely suffering from PTSD who spend his nights patrolling the crime ridden streets of a decaying New York City in his yellow cab. The film is commonly read as...

This visual essay looks at the work of filmmaker Martin Scorsese, focusing in on the film ‘Taxi Driver’. The aim was to make a correlation between this film and theories of semiotics, in particular the symbolisms Scorcese uses to question the protagonists Loneliness and Masculinity....