Communities of practice: acknowledging vulnerability to improve resilience in healthcare teams.

ethics history of health ethics/bioethics interests of health personnel/institutions professional - professional relationship

Journal

Journal of medical ethics
ISSN: 1473-4257
Titre abrégé: J Med Ethics
Pays: England
ID NLM: 7513619

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
24 Jan 2020
Historique:
received: 25 09 2019
revised: 19 12 2019
accepted: 13 01 2020
entrez: 26 1 2020
pubmed: 26 1 2020
medline: 26 1 2020
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

The majority of healthcare professionals regularly witness fragility, suffering, pain and death in their professional lives. Such experiences may increase the risk of burnout and compassion fatigue, especially if they are without self-awareness and a healthy work environment. Acquiring a deeper understanding of vulnerability inherent to their professional work will be of crucial importance to face these risks. From a relational ethics perspective, the role of the team is critical in the development of professional values which can help to cope with the inherent vulnerability of healthcare professionals. The focus of this paper is the role of Communities of Practice as a source of resilience, since they can create a reflective space for recognising and sharing their experiences of vulnerability that arises as part of their work. This shared knowledge can be a source of strength while simultaneously increasing the confidence and resilience of the healthcare team.

Identifiants

pubmed: 31980462
pii: medethics-2019-105865
doi: 10.1136/medethics-2019-105865
pmc: PMC8257551
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Informations de copyright

© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Competing interests: None declared.

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Auteurs

Janet Delgado (J)

University Institute of Women's Studies, University of La Laguna, La Laguna, Spain jdelgadr@ull.edu.es.
NICU, University Hospital of the Canary Islands, La Laguna, Spain.

Janet de Groot (J)

University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Graham McCaffrey (G)

Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK.

Gina Dimitropoulos (G)

University of Calgary Faculty of Social Work, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Kathleen C Sitter (KC)

University of Calgary Faculty of Social Work, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Wendy Austin (W)

Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

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