Developing Practice in Healthcare: The Contribution of Bildung to Negotiating the Tensions among Practical, Professional and Organisational Knowing

Abstract: "Action research provides a framework for developing practice in healthcare. While developing practice typically implies a combination of patient centeredness, quality improvement and change, conflicts arise in how concepts such as patient centredness are defined. Developing practice invites attention to positionality and engagement with policy directives, trends in clinical care, and other disciplines each with their own language stratification reflecting particular sets of values and beliefs. Our process of engagement is value-based, requiring attention to different and often conflicting languages or worldviews. We understand practice development as responding to different calls from the system, our individual disciplines, patients and changing discourses in healthcare, each exerting different pressures at different times. This paper describes an action research project aimed at developing nursing practice through engaging with two conflicting philosophies of care. We illustrate

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Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch
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Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: International Journal of Action Research ; 8 (2012) 2 ; 159-184

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Mannheim
(when)
2012
Creator
Hynes, Geralyn
Coghlan, David
McCarron, Mary

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-414093
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Hynes, Geralyn
  • Coghlan, David
  • McCarron, Mary

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  • 2012

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