Communities of practice in health and social care
By: edited by Andrée le May.
Contributors: Le May, Andrée.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.; Wiley-Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K; Ames [Iowa]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781405168304
Subjects: Communities of practice; Medicine -- Practice; Social service; Community Health Services; Community Health Planning
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing communities of practice / Andrée le May; title: The extra community of practice: incubating change / Nina Stipich, Jane Coutts, and Mireille Brosseau; title: The interior health nurse practitioner community of practice : facilitating NP integration in a regional health authority / Linda Sawchenko; title: Developing dermatology outpatient services through a community of practice / Judith Lathlean and Michelle Myall; title: Practice made perfect : discovering the roles of a community of general practice / John Gabbay and Andrée le May; title: Learning nursing in the workplace community / Mary Gobbi; title: Communities of practice and learning health practice in developing countries / Alex le May; title: Generating patient capital : the contribution of story telling in communities of practice designed to develop older people's services / Andrée le May; title: 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; title: Where does this get us and where will we go from here? / Andrée le May.