Journal article
The unconference; dismantling traditional structures and process to create communities of practice – a critical reflection
Australian Critical Care, Vol.33(Supplement 1), pp.S9-S9
01/01/2020
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Abstract
Introduction: When critical care practitioners collaborate and learn together the benefits are significant and impact positively on patient outcomes. Recently an innovative and inventive space has been created to promote interprofessional learning in critical care – the unconference. Despite its obvious strengths, the unconference has not been widely adopted in critical care and there is very limited understanding of how the unconference can be used to develop practice and promote collaboration.
Objectives/Aims: The Australian and New Zealand Clinician Educator Network (ANZCEN) is a collaborative interprofessional group that aims to promote learning in critical care. In February 2018, the group called for expression of interests from critical care practitioners interested in developing a community of practice. Key leaders in this group developed the critical care interprofessional unconference (CCIPU). The CCIPU was a 1-day event, which aimed to deliver an innovative approach to healthcare learning and collaboration, through a collaborative framework with interprofessional representation and participation across critical care specialties. The aim of the CCIPU was to explore and identify how interprofessional health professional educators in critical care, can engage and collaborate together.
Methods: We will provide a critical reflective analysis of engaging in the CCIPU and using Brookfield’s reflective lenses we explore how the CCIPU challenged our assumptions about our educational practices.
Results: Three key areas of learning emerged from our reflective lenses: 1) engagement with a community of practice, 2) using technology to communicate and collaborate, 3) participation in interprofessional learning that developed a number of important education and scholarly outputs.
Conclusion: Engaging and participating in the unconference enabled us to develop key learning concepts that developed our clinical and educational practices and encouraged sustained collaboration with the critical care interprofessional community.
Details
- Title
- The unconference; dismantling traditional structures and process to create communities of practice – a critical reflection
- Creators
- Debbie Massey - Southern Cross UniversityPaul Ross - Alfred HealthBruce Lister - Queensland Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
- Publication Details
- Australian Critical Care, Vol.33(Supplement 1), pp.S9-S9
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc.
- Identifiers
- 991012978038302368
- Copyright
- © 2020 Published by Elsevier Inc.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Health; Nursing
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article