Developing an online community of practice to empower health visitors: Findings from a pilot study
Developing an online community of practice to empower health visitors: Findings from a pilot study
The Burdett Trust for Nursing funded a 2-year project to pilot an online community of practice to enable health visitors to share, manage and co-produce knowledge in a virtual space. The aim of the project was to develop a robust web-based tool to allow practitioners to share expertise and promote learning to empower them to exchange professional knowledge and best practice with other practitioners across organisational boundaries. In this paper, the authors reflect on the process of developing an online community of practice for health visiting, and report some initial findings and challenges from the pilot study.
Health visiting practice, Knowledge sharing, Online communities, Community of practice, Social media, Evidence hub
436–440
Ikioda, Faith
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Kendall, Sally
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Brooks, Fiona
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Reidy, Claire
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August 2014
Ikioda, Faith
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Kendall, Sally
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Brooks, Fiona
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Reidy, Claire
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Ikioda, Faith, Kendall, Sally, Brooks, Fiona and Reidy, Claire
(2014)
Developing an online community of practice to empower health visitors: Findings from a pilot study.
Journal of Health Visiting, 2 (8), .
(doi:10.12968/johv.2014.2.8.436).
Abstract
The Burdett Trust for Nursing funded a 2-year project to pilot an online community of practice to enable health visitors to share, manage and co-produce knowledge in a virtual space. The aim of the project was to develop a robust web-based tool to allow practitioners to share expertise and promote learning to empower them to exchange professional knowledge and best practice with other practitioners across organisational boundaries. In this paper, the authors reflect on the process of developing an online community of practice for health visiting, and report some initial findings and challenges from the pilot study.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 17 August 2014
Published date: August 2014
Keywords:
Health visiting practice, Knowledge sharing, Online communities, Community of practice, Social media, Evidence hub
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Local EPrints ID: 433358
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/433358
ISSN: 2050-8719
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