Practice Based Learning in Nursing, Health and Social Care: Mentorship,
Facilitation and Supervision
Book description
Work based learning facilitation, mentoring and coaching are all
integral to the health care professions. Practice Based Learning in
Nursing, Health and Social Care promotes effective professional
learning in the workplace and helps health care professionals to
develop, enhance, reflect on and change their practice and perceptions
of mentoring, facilitating, and supervision.
Aimed at the health and social care practitioner who is involved in
facilitating learning, teaching and assessing learners in practice,
this essential, comprehensive text explores several key themes, including:
- The nature of facilitating (coaching, supervision, mentoring)
within professional contexts
- Learning in communities of practice
- Becoming an effective facilitator/mentor
- Understand and supporting work-based learning
- Managing the unusual, such as failing learners or those with
special needs
- Giving and documenting feedback
- Managing workloads in busy environments
- Professional development issues
Special features:
- A clear, accessible guide for new and experienced practice
educators/facilitators alike
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A comprehensive, applied text for practitioners of all levels
of experience in facilitation and supervision
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Written by authors with extensive experience in the field
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Uniquely focuses on the professional development of the
mentor/facilitator themselves
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Provides case studies throughout showing illustrating common
issues and how to engage in formal theories of professional practice
- Multiprofessional focus- aimed at all health and social care practitioners
