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Action Research in Health Care
Alison Morton Cooper
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Description for Action Research in Health Care
Paperback. explains the ethos and principles of action research demonstrates how it may be used in health care practice helps practitioners participate in and/or plan, carry out and evaluate their own action research studies author of best-selling Mentoring, Preceptorship and Clinical Supervision with Anne Palmer. Num Pages: 128 pages, 20 line illustrations, references, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: MBGR; MQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 214.
Action research has grown in stature in the fields of education and industry because it centres on people and their problems. Thus it necessarily shares aspects of their human frailty and apparent fickleness: it refuses to be bound by the conventional methods used to create boundaries in scientific research. In these days of clinical governance, action research provides a valuable means of developing responsible and reflective practices that takes into account the different stakeholders within a public service environment.
Action research has grown in stature in the fields of education and industry because it centres on people and their problems. Thus it necessarily shares aspects of their human frailty and apparent fickleness: it refuses to be bound by the conventional methods used to create boundaries in scientific research. In these days of clinical governance, action research provides a valuable means of developing responsible and reflective practices that takes into account the different stakeholders within a public service environment.
Action research in health care is something of a 'new age' approach, and as such it is only beginning to ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
124
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780632040919
SKU
V9780632040919
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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99-50
About Alison Morton Cooper
Alison Morton-Cooper has had many years of experience in the field of health care, in health services journalism, as a health educator and latterly as a senior nurse and lecturer in continuing professional education. Her MEd and PhD in Continuing Education from the University of Warwick, England, led to substantive research as to the ways health professionals learn best from ... Read more
Reviews for Action Research in Health Care
"This book would be an excellent starting point for someone interested in undertaking research in practice who feels the reductionist or qualitative research method is not appropriate." Physiotherapy Journal "Action Research in Healthcare is a welcome addition to the literature on methods because it outlines an alternative problem-solving, collaborative approach to research. It is accessible ... Read more