Healthcare Professionalism: Improving Practice through Reflections on Workplace Dilemmas provides the tools and resources to help raise professional standards within the healthcare system. Taking an evidence and case-based approach to understanding professional dilemmas in healthcare, this book examines principles such as applying professional and ethical guidance in practice, as well as raising concerns and making decisions when faced with complex issues that often have no absolute right answer.

Key features include:

• Real-life dilemmas as narrated by hundreds of healthcare students globally
• A wide range of professionalism and inter-professionalism related topics
• Information based on the latest international evidence

Using personal incident narratives to illustrate these dilemmas, as well as regulatory body professionalism standards, Healthcare Professionalism is an invaluable resource for students, healthcare professionals and educators as they explore their own professional codes of behaviour.

About the Author

About the authors

Lynn V. Monrouxe is Professor and Director of the Medical Education Research Centre at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan.

Charlotte E. Rees is Professor and Director of Health Professions Education and Education Research (HealthPEER), and Director of Curriculum (MBBS), Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Reviews

'...excellent layout and presentation, especially the way the text is broken up into boxes to highlight common themes throughout each chapter, such as learning outcomes for reflective sessions and case study narratives. Each chapter is also rounded off with a summary, discussion points, learning activities and recommended reading, which helps the reader to draw conclusions at each stage to consolidate learning...there is much learning to be gained from the insightful reflections of a wider, multidisciplinary body of students' - Nursing Standard

'This book explores important professionalism dilemmas, including patient safety errors, consent and confidentiality ... The chapters include thought-provoking narratives on personal incidents and case studies that clearly link theory with practice. Detailed referencing provides an evidence-based, robust approach to tackling professionalism dilemmas.' - Surgeons' News, The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

"This book presents a valuable and realistic structure for teaching and learning how to become and develop as professional in any healthcare discipline. The usefulness of this book lies in the approach to guiding and developing the student's professional identify and the educator's teaching strategies to promote corrective actions based on reflections shaped by professional dilemmas founded on failures of professionals in various healthcare disciplines" Linda S. Hansen, MSN, RN, Michigan State University College of Nursing on behalf of Doody's Aug 17

'The key strength of this book is that it continually links the theory of professionalism to the reality of day-to-day practice ... the authors do an excellent job of exposing the commonalities and differences in the perspectives of the various health care professions.' Anesthesia and Analgesia

Book Information
ISBN 9781119044444
Author Lynn V. Monrouxe
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 544g
Dimensions(mm) 239mm * 168mm * 15mm