Communities of practice in health and social care [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Andrée le May

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell Pub., 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (144 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.12068
• Soggetto topico: Communities of practice; Medicine - Practice; Social service
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: Le MayAndrée
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-127) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introducing communities of practice / Andrée le May -- The EXTRA community of practice: incubating change / Nina Stipich, Jane Coutts, and Mireille Brosseau -- The interior health nurse practitioner community of practice : facilitating NP integration in a regional health authority / Linda Sawchenko -- Developing dermatology outpatient services through a community of practice / Judith Lathlean and Michelle Myall -- Practice made perfect : discovering the roles of a community of general practice / John Gabbay and Andrée le May -- Learning nursing in the workplace community / Mary Gobbi -- Communities of practice and learning health practice in developing countries / Alex le May -- Generating patient capital : the contribution of story telling in communities of practice designed to develop older people's services / Andrée le May -- What works, what counts, and what matters? Communities of practice as a locus for contributing to resource allocation decisions / Helen Roberts, Alan Shiell, and Madeleine Stevens -- Where does this get us and where will we go from here? / Andrée le May.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 Australia 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 know
• Titolo autorizzato: Communities of practice in health and social care
• ISBN: 1-282-11707-6; 9786612117077; 1-4443-0953-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454628203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II