Shaping practice : clinician's experiences in a community of practice
department or school: Health and Social Development, Faculty of (Okanagan)
department or school: Nursing, School of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: Mendel, Donna L
issued: 2012-01-16T18:29:07Z
issued: 2011
related degree: Master of Science in Nursing - MSN
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Large regional health authorities are challenged to find effective ways to increase interprofessional and intra-regional collaboration so that expertise and knowledge can be shared, enhanced, disseminated and more effectively translated into practice. Communities of practice (CoPs) have been introduced into healthcare over the last few years as a strategy to improve knowledge translation and organizational performance. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore healthcare clinicians' experiences of being a member of a clinically-focused CoP. Semi-structured interviews with 15 CoP members were conducted and transcribed. Thematic analysis revealed participants constructed CoP in four main ways: as a learning community, a means to cope with organizational life, a mechanism to get organizational work done and as an elite group. Important participant experiences in CoPs included: supporting one another, staying on top of things, and helping each other. Although participants talked very positively about their experiences in CoPs there were also challenges and frustrations. There were two main outcomes of membership in a CoP. First the CoPs were perceived to provide an opportunity to develop a sense of belonging. Secondly, CoPs enabled changes in practice. Practice changes ranged from individuals thinking about and enacting practice differently to organization-wide changes in practice standards. Information from the perspectives of the community members about their experiences in clinically-focused CoP can be used by administrators for future planning, resourcing and providing support to CoPs. These findings extend our understanding of the implications of this important and relatively new social structure in healthcare.
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note: SHAPING PRACTICE: CLINICIANS‟ EXPERIENCES IN A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE by Donna L Mendel BScN, The University of Victoria, 1995 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIRMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN NURSING in The College of Graduate Studies THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Okanagan) December 2011 © Donna L Mendel, 2011 ii Abstract Large regional health authorities are challenged to find effective ways to increase interprofessional and intra-regional collaboration so that expertise and knowledge can be shared, enhanced, disseminated and more effectively translated into practice. Communities of practice (CoPs) have been introduced into healthcare over the last few years as a strategy to improve knowledge translation and organizational performance. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore healthcare clinicians‟ experiences of being a member of a clinically-focused CoP. Semi-structured interviews with 15 CoP members were conducted and transcribed. Thematic analysis revealed participants constructed CoP in four main ways: as a learning community, a means to cope with organizational life, a mechanism to get organizational work done and as an elite group. Important participant experiences in CoPs included: supporting one another, staying on top of things, and helping each other. Although participants talked very positively about their experiences in CoPs there were also challenges and frustrations. There were two main outcomes of membership in a CoP. First the CoPs were perceived to provide an opportunity to develop a sense of belonging. Secondly, CoPs enabled changes in practice. Practice changes ranged from individuals‟ thinking about and enacting practice differently to organization-wide changes in practice standards. Information from the perspectives of the community members about their experiences in clinically- focused CoP can be used by administrators for future planning, resourcing and providing support to CoPs. These find…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2012-05
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0072541
language: eng
degree discipline: Nursing
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution 3.0 Unported
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/40098