Full Description
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.
Contents
Foreword Etienne Wenger vii
Acknowledgements x
List of Contributors xi
Part 1 Introducing Communities of Practice 1
Chapter 1 Introducing Communities of Practice 3
Andrée le May
Part 2 Getting Started 17
Chapter 2 The EXTRA Community of Practice: Incubating Change 19
Nina Stipich, Jane Coutts and Mireille Brosseau
Chapter 3 The Interior Health Nurse Practitioner Community of Practice: Facilitating NP Integration in a Regional Health Authority 28
Linda Sawchenko
Chapter 4 Developing Dermatology Outpatient Services through a Community of Practice 36
Judith Lathlean and Michelle Myall
Part 3 Generating Professional and Patient Capital 47
Chapter 5 Practice Made Perfect: Discovering the Roles of a Community of General Practice 49
John Gabbay and Andrée le May
Chapter 6 Learning Nursing in the Workplace Community: The Generation of Professional Capital 66
Mary Gobbi
Chapter 7 Communities of Practice and Learning Health Practice in Developing Countries 83
Alex le May
Chapter 8 Generating Patient Capital: The Contribution of Storytelling in Communities of Practice Designed to Develop Older People's Services 95
Andrée le May
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
Helen Roberts, Alan Shiell and Madeleine Stevens
Chapter 10 Where Does This Get Us and Where Will We Go from Here? 118
Andrée le May
References 121
Index 129
