Change in Practice Environment
Community practice approach plays a key role in the society in transforming the working environment of the nursing practice. The approach offers potential healthcare system, which is useful in developing work-oriented collaborative, educational aspects, promotes involvement of the nursing professionals, researchers, communities, and groups within a given environment. The practice of nursing need to promote, manage and disseminate knowledge among the members of the community practice. Community practice approach offers an elaborate shared approach through, which nurses can mange and transfer knowledge and the evolving practice. Community practice play a crucial role in promoting situational learning, which is based on cooperation of the community members in the nursing profession who to achieve a common goal. There are two major perspectives on situational learning, which include activity based emphasizing the significance of contextual particular knowledge learning in educational institutions and workplace. The second situational learning aspect is anthropological, which emphasizes that acquisition of knowledge in a community of nursing practice result from extensive participation in the wider social environment. Community practice approach is a major tool used to managing and tranfering knowledge to the members of the nursing profession (Rubenfeld, 2010).
Community practice approach promotes workplace learning through collaboration thus resulting into growth, innovation and dissemination of knowledge. This will effectively change the nursing environment thus improving service delivery in the healthcare system. Collaboration which arise due to interaction of professional and researchers in the practice of nursing will lead to successful acquisition of knowledge sufficient for transforming the nursing environment (Marianne, 2004). Community practice approach also has the potential to promote collaboration and management of knowledge within the nursing profession. Many individuals are being encouraged primarily by the aspect of community practice to develop and belong to a central belief in the community to facilitate change in the nursing environment. In the learning in nursing environment emerges of the actual social involvement and the acquired knowledge penetrates through the society as a result of cooperation and community participation (Kim, 2010).
Community practice approach is a tool for transferring knowledge and developing skills necessary for changing the environment, which provide favorable environment for dissemination of knowledge. The communities involved in practice of nursing are useful resource for developing new knowledge and its dissemination in the community of researchers and professionals in the nursing professions. Nurses who are equipped with extensive experience have the capacity to explore community practice strategies to challenge and transform health care practices and cope with acquired knowledge. Community practice approach promotes the aspects of learning through double loop system, which promote, challenge, and stirs individuals to be involved in creation and affecting the element of change via discovery, assessment, and participation in the nursing practice. This approach also is democratic approach for working and promoting common leadership and working skills within community’s practice, which aims at transforming the environment of nursing by making it favorable. This will also promote the element of education, which leads to acquisition and dissemination of knowledge within the nursing profession (Marrianne, 2004).
Community practice approach identifies the association between symbolic theory and practice. This means that if the learning environment emerges within the nursing practice, then it consequently promotes the opportunities, which are associated with nursing professional thus changing the environment. In the nursing field, the community practice approach has the prospective of allowing practitioners and professionals to effect changes in the nursing profession. This will change the nursing environment thus promoting quality service delivery in the health care system (Rubenfeld, 2010).
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