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Communities of Practice in Health and Social Care
Andrée le May (Edited by), Etienne Wenger (Foreword by)
9781405168304, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 24 October 2008
144 pages
24.4 x 17.3 x 0.9 cm, 0.263 kg
Communities of Practice in Health and Social Care highlights how communities of practice (CoPs) can make service development and quality improvement in health and social care easier to initiate and more sustainable. Using a series of case studies from the UK and Canada the book demonstrates how the theory of CoPs is implemented in the delivery of health and social care and highlights the associated potential, complexities, advantages and disadvantages. Communities of Practice in Health and Social Care equips practitioners, managers, educators and practice mentors with the knowledge and skills to facilitate the development and maintenance of Communities of Practice and highlights how the effects of Communities of Practice might be made explicit.
Foreword Etienne Wenger vii Acknowledgements x List of Contributors xi Part 1 Introducing Communities of Practice 1 Chapter 1 Introducing Communities of Practice 3 Part 2 Getting Started 17 Chapter 2 The EXTRA Community of Practice: Incubating Change 19 Chapter 3 The Interior Health Nurse Practitioner Community of Practice: Facilitating NP Integration in a Regional Health Authority 28 Chapter 4 Developing Dermatology Outpatient Services through a Community of Practice 36 Part 3 Generating Professional and Patient Capital 47 Chapter 5 Practice Made Perfect: Discovering the Roles of a Community of General Practice 49 Chapter 6 Learning Nursing in the Workplace Community: The Generation of Professional Capital 66 Chapter 7 Communities of Practice and Learning Health Practice in Developing Countries 83 Chapter 8 Generating Patient Capital: The Contribution of Storytelling in Communities of Practice Designed to Develop Older People’s Services 95 Part 4 So What? 107 Chapter 9 What Works, What Counts and What Matters? Communities of Practice as a Locus forContributing to Resource Allocation Decisions 109 Chapter 10 Where Does This Get Us and Where Will We Go from Here? 118 References 121 Index 129
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Nina Stipich, Jane Coutts and Mireille Brosseau
Linda Sawchenko
Judith Lathlean and Michelle Myall
John Gabbay and Andrée le May
Mary Gobbi
Alex le May
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Helen Roberts, Alan Shiell and Madeleine Stevens
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Subject Areas: Nursing & ancillary services [MQ]
