A Mirror in Which to Practice--Using Action Learning to Change End-of-Life Care

Autor/inn/en	Winterburn, Kathryn; Hicks, Fiona
Titel	A Mirror in Which to Practice--Using Action Learning to Change End-of-Life Care
Quelle	In: Action Learning: Research and Practice, 9 (2012) 3, S.307-315 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1476-7333
DOI	10.1080/14767333.2012.722361
Schlagwörter	Experiential Learning; Leadership; Medical Education; Behavior Change; Pain; Administration; Quality of Life; Hospitals; Medicine + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Führung; Führungsposition; Medizinische Ausbildung; Schmerz; Verwaltung; Lebensqualität; Krankengymnast; Krankenhaus; Medizin
Abstract	While action learning is a familiar tenet of much management and leadership development activity within the NHS it is not commonly utilised within the education and development of doctors where didactic methods remain the preferred mechanism to impart factual knowledge necessary to fulfil the autonomous practitioner role. Within the specialism of palliative medicine, the implementation of a national end-of-life (EoL) care strategy will challenge this predilection. The new strategy seeks to enable more people to die in the place of their choosing as such it requires clinicians outside the speciality of palliative care to make it a routine part of their practice. Since doctors are trained to cure or extend life, the strategy requires specialists to change their practice, behaviour and communication to engage the patient and family in decision-making and planning for the EoL. An intensive development programme utilising action learning methods is currently being piloted in two acute hospital settings to equip a small group of specialist senior clinicians to deliver the required changes. This paper describes the use of action learning within this context to explore its utility with an uninitiated and sceptical audience. (Contains 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10