Educational Solutions for Workforce Development Multidisciplinary Prepared by Paul Lambert and Simon Sikora, Practice Education Coordinators, NHS Education

Educational Solutions for Workforce Development

Multidisciplinary

Prepared by Paul Lambert and Simon Sikora, Practice Education Coordinators, NHS Education for Scotland

Presented by Paul Lambert, 25 January 2008, PEPE Conference Edinburgh, UK

Supporting a community of practice for nursing, midwifery and allied health

professions practice education facilitators using the NHS e-library’s ‘Shared Space’ :

Evaluation and lessons learned from the first year.


MultidisciplinaryOverview

• Practice Education Facilitators as a Community of Practice

• NHS E-library and Shared Spaces

• Evaluation of the Practice Education Shared Space

• Implications and Developments


MultidisciplinaryPractice Education

• Practice education infrastructure and NHS Education for

Scotland

• >130 Practice education facilitators across all NHS Health

Boards

• Practice education coordinators introduced by NES in 2006


MultidisciplinaryPractice Education

• Practice education infrastructure and NHS Education for

Scotland

• >130 Practice education facilitators across all NHS Health

Boards

• Practice education coordinators introduced by NES in 2006


MultidisciplinaryEmergent Community of Practice

‘…the wide range of education which takes place in the practice setting; along with the supporting infrastructure for learning which ultimately enhances (client) care’

(NES Report of 3 Regional Practice Education Events, 2006


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The NHS Scotland e-library and Shared Spaces


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Practice Education Shared Space


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Evaluation of the PE Shared SpaceThe First Year

Methodology

• Usage statistics from NHS e-library• On-line survey of Shared Space members

• Descriptive statistics and content analysis


MultidisciplinaryPE Shared Space Year 1

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MultidisciplinarySurvey Results

• 40 respondents (31% return rate)

• 60% (n=24) rated their IT skills as good or very good

• 98% (n=39) had access to a computer at work or at home

• 39 respondents used the e-library for literature searching

• Near universal use of email (n=39) with much smaller numbers using social networking sites (n=3) or instant messaging services (n=7)



• 30 respondents had accessed the shared space in the last 6 months

• Usually once per week (n=14) and most often for 5-15 minutes (n=19)

• Most popular features were shared documents

• Least popular features were discussions

• Strong professional preference

• Improvement required to some technical/structural aspects



Key perceived barriers to use:

• Not enough time in my day• Long up and download time• Confusion about the structure

Suggested Improvements

• “Quicker Uploads”• “Improved Alerts”• “Simplified Structure”



• 10 respondents had not used the shared space in the previous 6 months

• most common reasons:

“I don’t like electronic discussion forums” n=4

“I lack confidence with IT” n=3


MultidisciplinaryDiscussion

• Membership and page views

• Nurturing communities of practice

• New technologies: Geoffrey Moore’s Technology Adoption Life Cycle

• Integrated vs Separate e-Tools

• Other factors







• Other factors







• Other factors


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Implications for the Practice Education Shared Space

• Control expectations, work with early adopters before mainstream rollout

• Generate internal leadership

• Nurture and support from outside, including content support

• Link into wider e-health agenda for NMAHPs


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Implications for the Practice Education Shared Space

• Control expectations, work with early adopters before mainstream rollout

• Generate internal leadership

• Nurture and support from outside, including content support

• Link into wider e-health agenda for NMAHPs


MultidisciplinaryAcknowledgements

• Annette Thain and Lynn Caldwell, NHS e-library

• NMAHP Practice education facilitators from across Scotland

• Neil Ballantyne for a nudge in the right direction

References

Dalsgaard, C (2006) Social Software: E-Learning beyond Learning Management Systems, EURODL available from http://www.eurold.org/materials/contrib/christian_dalsgaard

Wenger, E (1998) Communities of Practice: Learning meaning and identity. Available fromhttp://www.ewenger.com/pub/index.htm

Ross W and Stewart (2007) NHS E-library Shared Space Evaluation Project, Unpublished, Available from author.

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Educational Solutions for Workforce Development Multidisciplinary Prepared by Paul Lambert and Simon Sikora, Practice Education Coordinators, NHS Education