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Theatre Practitioners in the UK[edit]

A friend of mine did a search for theatre jobs in the UK (relating to acting), but came upon numerous listings for "theatre nurses" or "theatre practitioners" relating to job postings for positions in the healthcare field. Google searches for Theatre Practitioners UK or Theatre nurses will return jobs pertaining to the healthcare arena. This site give some description of the term, but I can't really find anything else (without doing any more in depth researching). Should this article include something about the terminology as it applies to healthcare? Zach99998 (talk) 03:44, 11 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No - an article should always be about 'one' thing. But yes, it's a problem for job-hunters. If someone wanted to write an encyclopedia article on the subject of the healthcare professional, then it would be disambiguated (like this: Theatre practitioner (health) or something along those lines). • DP • ^{huh?} 23:31, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the way it looks, this article is more like a practical joke. A simple google search shows that the drama meaning of the term is quite secondary. The first ten results happen to be all healthcare job ads except for the ones linking to this very page, while in the first hundred more than 3 in 4 are healthcare job ads. Without even considering that the researcher's (=my) computer is biased towards art-related searches, because of my occupation, the primary meaning of the term is clearly medical. Anapazapa (talk) 02:29, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Are you under the impression that the primary meaning of the word "theatre" is a place in which operations are performed? • DP • ^{huh?} 08:38, 4 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Nope. As a non-native English speaker I guessed - and some very simple research justified my guess - that the primary use of the expression "theatre practitioner" is medical. So is the secondary, terciary etc. till somewhere at the bottom of the list might appear some Stage stuff / Actors stuff. After hundreds of pages of Surgeon and Nurse stuff. It does not necessarily affect the primary meaning of he word "theatre" of course. Anapazapa (talk) 23:02, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]