177 research outputs found
Landscape of practice learning
No full textThis opening chapter attempts to introduce the reader to the nature of practice learning as a living landscape of key features that determine supervisors’ and learners’ engagement with learning, including the nature of knowledge, boundaries and terrains that characterise the learning journey. It is argued that practice and work-based learning need to be understood as similar but distinct fields by supervisors, assessors and educators who need to be committed to the wellbeing of students and apprentices through the provision of a compassionate practice learning environment.</p
Compassionate and ethical practice learning
No full textThe theme of compassionate practice learning continues in this chapter, as we consider the role of quality enhancement processes within learning environments and how supervisors, assessors and educators can work collaboratively through partnership approaches. The experiences of dissatisfied learners are explored from the perspective of a constellation of factors that require students and apprentices to be supported, particularly when raising their concerns.</p
Supporting health, well-being and promoting inclusivity
No full textThis chapter provides educators with an assessment framework to make sense of the failing student and learner in difficulty, using a comprehensive, robust and holistic approach. Making sense of cause for concern from a welfare as well as a fitness to practice perspective is considered in detail, prior to a consideration of the key skills in action planning and the adoption of communication approaches that promote learner inclusivity.</p
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Learning environments
No full textThis chapter explores the context in which practice learning takes place in health and social care; namely the learning environment, which we argue should provide all learners with a broad or expansive range of opportunities. A key approach to sustaining expansive and compassionate learning environments is the support provided by the host or employing organisation in health and social care settings. We identify a range of strategies that leaders can deploy to promote and enhance workplace learning environments for all
Implications of assisted dying for nursing practice
No full textAuthor note: This article is based on a presentation delivered at the 24th International Nursing Ethics Conference, Brunel University of London on the 30th August 2024.This conceptual paper considers the practice implications of assisted dying for contemporary nursing practice within the United Kingdom in response to the publication of a parliamentary report leading to a private members’ bill that will form the basis of a debate and possible change in legislation. A recurring theme within the nursing research is how nurses should respond to patients expressing an interest or making a request for assisted dying. This paper explores contemporary evidence and argues that the procedure of assisted dying is a complex (manifold) and puzzling (paradoxical) practice. The UK nursing profession may replicate recent healthcare catastrophes if the response to a proposal for assisted dying is based on a technical-rational stance, or if nurses merely coalesce around a single determinant such as patient autonomy. The paper presents two nursing communicative interventions that seek to address how to respond to a patient request for an assisted death that foregrounds the preferences and personhood of the patient whilst providing opportunities for enquiry-based approaches to enhance nursing responses to intractable suffering.The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article
Smoking in pregnancy and after childbirth: An update
No full text Figures show that progress to reduce the rates of smoking in pregnancy has slowed over the last year. Hilary Wareing looks at the role of the health visitor in achieving the government's aim to reduce the prevalence of smoking in pregnancy from 10.7% to 6%. </jats:p
Supporting learners working with children and young people
No full textChapter 10 presents a broad focus on the support of students and apprentices within children’s and young people’s services, including the need for learners to appreciate the importance of family with reference to the post-pandemic era. The role of practice supervisors, assessors and educators in the development of students and apprentices to develop advocacy skills is outlined within the context of the relationship between theoretical perspectives that are relevant to the development of child as well as adult learners
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