Practice Based Learning in Nursing, Health and Social Care: Mentorship, Facilitation and Supervision

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