Work-based learning facilitation, mentoring and coaching are all integral to the healthcare professions.

Practice Based Learning in Nursing, Health and Social Care promotes effective professional learning in the workplace and helps healthcare professionals to develop, enhance, reflect on and change their practice and perceptions of mentoring, facilitating, and supervision.

Aimed at the health and social care practitioner who is involved in facilitating learning, teaching and assessing learners in practice, this essential, comprehensive text explores several key themes, including:



The nature of facilitating (coaching, supervision, mentoring) within professional contexts
Learning in communities of practice
Becoming an effective facilitator/mentor
Understand and supporting work-based learning
Managing the unusual, such as failing learners or those with special needs
Giving and documenting feedback
Managing workloads in busy environments
Professional development issues

Special features:



A clear, accessible guide for new and experienced practice educators/facilitators alike
A comprehensive, applied text for practitioners of all levels of experience in facilitation and supervision
Written by authors with extensive experience in the field
Uniquely focuses on the professional development of the mentor/facilitator themselves
Provides case studies throughout showing illustrating common issues and how to engage in formal theories of professional practice
Multiprofessional focus - aimed at all health and social care practitioners