Practitioner Research in Health Care

by Sue Procter Jan Reed

Overview

Practitioner Research in Health Care is concerned with the notion of practitioner research, a developing field of research. It meets an ever-increasing demand for a research methodology text which recognizes the particular problems and issues of health care practitioners researching their own practice. The advantages and problems of insider knowledge, and the characteristics of research roles and relationships, and how these can be integrated with practitioner responsibilities, are discussed and examples are used to illustrate these issues.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780412498107
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	01/01/1994
Edition description:	1995
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

SECTION ONE -BASIC ISSUES IN PRACTITIONER RESEARCH: Practitioner Research in Context, Jan Reed and Sue Procter
The Nature of Practitioner Knowledge, Liz Meerabeau
Practitioner knowledge in Practitioner research, Jan Reed
The Contribution of Inductive and Deductive Theory to the Development of Practitioner Knowledge, Sue Procter. SECTION TWO-EXPERIENCES OF PRACTITIONER RESEARCH: Part 1 Introduction, Researching and Communicating with Children- problems and Issues of using a Randomised Controlled trial, Val Pirie, Reflections on Evaluating a Course of Family Therapy, Chris Stevenson
Part 2 Introduction, The Health Bus- a Study of a developing Project, Ruth McKeown, A study of family networks and relationships in community midwifery, Jean Davies
Part 3 Introduction
Patient's feelings about Patients, Debbie Skeil, How Adults with Learning difficulties and Their Informal carers perceive professional practice, Bob Heyman and Sarah Huckle. SECTION THREE- THE WAY FORWARD: Evaluating and Developing Practitioner Research, Jan Reed and Colin Biott.

Editorial Reviews

Discusses the problems and issues health care practitioners face while researching their own practice, and illustrates issues with case examples from the fields of midwifery, family therapy, and learning disabilities. Topics include bias, objectivity, and the use of insider knowledge. Distributed in the US by Singular. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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