ABSTRACT

With growing pressure on the NHS to keep staff up-to-date, committed and equipped with flexible skills profiles, "Learning for Health Improvement" offers creative ways to invest in people development. It explores the issues relating to work based learning, and argues it is much broader than mere skills acquisition and is wide ranging, collaborative and socially situated. Adopting a practical approach, the book makes use of quizzes, stories, dilemmas and audit tools to assist in comprehension and work-based application. "Learning for Health Improvement" is essential reading for managers and supervisors in healthcare, policy makers and shapers, and healthcare human resources and training managers. It will also be of great interest to healthcare lecturers and academics.

chapter 1|10 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|8 pages

Learning as acquisition

chapter 3|8 pages

Learning as participation

chapter 4|8 pages

Managing workplace learning

chapter 5|10 pages

Dilemmas

chapter 6|10 pages

The significance of the workplace

chapter 7|10 pages

Factors that affect workplace learning

chapter 8|14 pages

The factors explained

chapter 9|20 pages

Putting the factors to work

chapter 10|10 pages

Planning for change

chapter 11|10 pages

Conclusions