Practitioner Research in Health Care: The Inside Story
"Practitioner Research in Health Care" is concerned with the notion of "practitioner research", a developing field of research. It meets an ever-increasing demand for a research methodology text which recognizes the particular problems and issues of health care practitioners researching their own practice. The advantages and problems of "insider knowledge", and the characteristics of research roles and relationships, and how these can be integrated with practitioner responsibilities, are...
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"Practitioner Research in Health Care" is concerned with the notion of "practitioner research", a developing field of research. It meets an ever-increasing demand for a research methodology text which recognizes the particular problems and issues of health care practitioners researching their own practice. The advantages and problems of "insider knowledge", and the characteristics of research roles and relationships, and how these can be integrated with practitioner responsibilities, are discussed and examples are used to illustrate these issues.This book should be of interest to all health care workers involved in research students and practitioners of midwifery, nursing, occupational therapy and clinical psychology and doctors. Booknews Discusses the problems and issues health care practitioners face while researching their own practice, and illustrates issues with case examples from the fields of midwifery, family therapy, and learning disabilities. Topics include bias, objectivity, and the use of insider knowledge. Distributed in the US by Singular. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
SECTION ONE -BASIC ISSUES IN PRACTITIONER RESEARCH: Practitioner Research in Context, Jan Reed and Sue Procter The Nature of Practitioner Knowledge, Liz Meerabeau Practitioner knowledge in Practitioner research, Jan Reed The Contribution of Inductive and Deductive Theory to the Development of Practitioner Knowledge, Sue Procter. SECTION TWO-EXPERIENCES OF PRACTITIONER RESEARCH: Part 1 Introduction, Researching and Communicating with Children- problems and Issues of using a Randomised Controlled trial, Val Pirie, Reflections on Evaluating a Course of Family Therapy, Chris Stevenson Part 2 Introduction, The Health Bus- a Study of a developing Project, Ruth McKeown, A study of family networks and relationships in community midwifery, Jean Davies Part 3 Introduction Patient's feelings about Patients, Debbie Skeil, How Adults with Learning difficulties and Their Informal carers perceive professional practice, Bob Heyman and Sarah Huckle. SECTION THREE- THE WAY FORWARD: Evaluating and Developing Practitioner Research, Jan Reed and Colin Biott.
\ BooknewsDiscusses the problems and issues health care practitioners face while researching their own practice, and illustrates issues with case examples from the fields of midwifery, family therapy, and learning disabilities. Topics include bias, objectivity, and the use of insider knowledge. Distributed in the US by Singular. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
