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Professionalizing action research--a meaningful strategy for modernizing services?

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  • 1Head of Performance and Administration Forensic Services Directorate, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Rampton Hospital, Retford, UK. julie.hall@nottingham.ac.uk

Journal of Nursing Management
|April 8, 2006
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Professionalizing action research (PAR) offers a collaborative, reflective approach for sustainable practice development in healthcare. This method is particularly effective for services struggling with meaningful change, enhancing team learning and patient involvement.

Area of Science:

  • Healthcare Management
  • Organizational Development
  • Action Research

Background:

  • Sustained practice development is challenging in many health and social care services.
  • Acute inpatient mental health services have historically struggled with meaningful practice change.
  • This paper explores a specific action research approach to address these difficulties.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To critically evaluate professionalizing action research (PAR) as a strategy for achieving sustainable change.
  • To determine PAR's suitability for services with a history of poor practice development.
  • To explore PAR's potential for modernizing healthcare services.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review of action research and practice development.
  • Analysis of PAR components: educative base, problem focus, improvement, and involvement.

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  • Keywords: action research, team learning, managing change, practice development.

    • Main Results:

    • PAR utilizes collaborative reflective practice, grounding change in everyday situations.
    • The problem focus emphasizes service user and carer perspectives, aligning with patient involvement agendas.
    • Involvement and improvement are viewed as pluralistic, with acknowledged limitations.

    Conclusions:

    • PAR is a valuable process for service modernization, particularly in challenging healthcare contexts.
    • Its strengths lie in fostering team learning and context-grounded change through collaboration.
    • The approach supports sustainable practice development where meaningful change has been difficult.