le May Communities of Practice in Health and Social Care

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0953-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 144 Seiten, E-Book

Communities of Practice in Health and Social Care highlightshow communities of practice (CoPs) can make service development andquality improvement in health and social care easier to initiateand more sustainable.
Using a series of case studies from the UK and Canada the bookdemonstrates how the theory of CoPs is implemented in the deliveryof health and social care and highlights the associated potential,complexities, advantages and disadvantages.
Communities of Practice in Health and Social Care equipspractitioners, managers, educators and practice mentors with theknowledge and skills to facilitate the development and maintenanceof Communities of Practice and highlights how the effects ofCommunities of Practice might be made explicit.

Autoren/Hrsg.

le May, Andrée

Weitere Mitwirkende

Wenger, Etienne

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 Introducing Communities of Practice.
Chapter 1 Introducing Communities of Practice.
Andrée le May.
Part 2 Getting started.
Chapter 2 The EXTRA Community of Practice: Incubatingchange.
Nina Stipich, Jane Coutts and Mireille Brosseau.
Chapter 3 The Interior Health Nurse Practitioner Community ofPractice - Facilitating NP Integration in a Regional HealthAuthority.
Linda Sawchenko.
Chapter 4 Developing Dermatology Outpatient Services through aCommunity of Practice.
Judith Lathlean and Michelle Myall.
Part 3 Generating professional and patient capital.
Chapter 5 Practice made perfect: discovering the roles of acommunity of general practice.
John Gabbay and Andrée le May.
Chapter 6 Learning nursing in the workplace community.
Mary Gobbi.
Chapter 7 Communities of practice and learning health practicein developing countries.
Alex le May.
Chapter 8 Generating patient capital: the contribution of storytelling in Communities of Practice designed to develop olderpeople's services.
Andrée le May.
Part 4 So what?.
Chapter 9 What works, what counts and what matters? Communitiesof Practice as a locus for contributing to resource allocationdecisions.
Helen Roberts, Alan Shiell and Madeleine Stevens.
Chapter 10 Where does this get us and where will we go fromhere?.
Andrée le May

Über Autor(innen)

Andrée le May is Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Southampton University. She has written, researched and taught widely on Communities of Practice, Evidence-Based Practice and Knowledge Transfer. In addition she is an experienced author and teacher.