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INTERNATIONAL PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT JOURNAL SUMMER 2013 SPECIAL ISSUE
The International Practice Development Journal is an online journal with a vision, over the next five years, of becoming the first choice publication for academics and practitioners working in the practice development field internationally. Our commitment is to publish and make freely accessible, scholarly inquiry into practice development and related fields and to expand the international community of practitioners, educators and academics working in the area of practice development. See http://www.fons.org/library/about-ipdj.aspx
The academic editor is inviting submissions on practice development and action research related initiatives from the Enhancing Practice Conference in Sydney October 2012 and the CARN/IPDC Conference November 2012 in England for a forthcoming SPECIAL issue in the summer of 2013. We also want to enable novice presenters at both conferences to publish their practice development work in a scholarly way. To help achieve this, we will be offering some coaching support for novice writers.
Please see author guidelines http://www.fons.org/library/author-guidelines.aspx and email jan.dewing@canterbury.ac.uk if you are interested in submitting to the journal.
Farewell to 2011!
Thank you to all who have contributed to the launch and publication of the IPDJ in 2011.
See the list of contributors here.
Enhancing Practice 12 is proud to announce the 8th International Practice Development Conference on Wednesday 31 October – Friday 2 November 2012 to be held at the Bayview Boulevard Sydney, Australia.
The working theme of the conference is: Embedding, Enabling and Ethics within Practice Development. The conference aims to present a programme which is participative, innovative, stimulating, thought-provoking and entertaining by offering networking and learning opportunities to new and experienced, practitioners, practice developers, facilitators, educators, researchers and policy makers.
To find out more about the conference and to register your interest in attending click here.
New England Centre for Practice Development launched October 2011
The England Centre for Practice Development was launched by Canterbury Christ Church University on Wednesday, 5 October, 2011
The Centre aims to transform patient care and services so that are more person-centred, safe and effective at local, national and international levels.
Supported by the International Practice Development Collaborative (IPDC), the Centre will work with a network of leading international academics on research to influence government policy and practice in the development of health and social care quality standards. It will also bring together international, collaborative educational projects through the opportunity of e-learning.
Website: http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/health/EnglandCentreforPracticeDevelopment/Home.aspx
Official launch of the International Practice Development Journal
The International Practice Development Journal will be officially launched at a FoNS Celebratory event at the NMC, London on Thursday 16th June 2011.
Bookmarks to publicise the journal are now available - click here to view. If you would like to share information about the journal with other and would be happy to distribute some bookmarks, please contact Rebecca at: ipdj@fons.org and she will foward some to you.
Creating a Shared Vision for Person-centered Practice in Complex Continuing Care
Three clinicians from West Park Healthcare Centre presented their poster: Creating a Shared Vision for Person-centered Practice in Complex Continuing Careat the first “Clinical Scholarship: Promoting Evidence-informed Interprofessional Practice in Complex Continuing Care Conference” in Toronto, Canada on April 8, 2011. The poster showcases the practice development work being implemented at West Park in Toronto, with a particular focus on the collaborative efforts of nurses, unregulated care providers, allied health professionals, housekeeping staff, and physicians, all of whom are represented within the poster. Based on votes from the conference participants, the poster ran away with the People's Choice Award. Congratulations to Barbara Cowie, Advanced Practice Nurse; Maggie Barnes-Ahlbrand, Physiotherapist; and Kim Bell, Recreation Therapist for their success with the “people poster”!
Person-centred Practice Research Centre
The Person-centred Practice Research Centre (PcPRC) at the University of Ulster is one of four research centres in the Institute of Nursing Research. The vision of the PcPRC is to be a world-leading centre in research and development that has as its focus the enhancement of knowledge and expertise in person-centred practice. A range of activities are in place to achieve this vision, but central to their work is that of engaging with all those engaged in practicing, researching, developing or merely thinking about person-centredness. The PcPRC held its first annual conference in March 2011 with the aim of profiling the work of the Centre. Over 80 delegates attended this event and the ‘buzz’ of the day reflected the interest that exists in this area of research. Keynote speakers complemented the presentation of work from PcPRC researchers and doctoral students. It is particularly exciting that the Centre has more than 15 doctoral students, all of whom are focusing on developing new knowledge for person-centred practice. Feedback from participants was overwhelmingly positive, as reflected in the following quote: “Thank you for a superb day yesterday. The content, speakers, venue and food was really good. Six people attended from my programme of work and I linked with them today and their feedback was very positive. It helped to put the work I am doing into context for them”.