Publications by authors named "L Nimmon"
Belonging in dual roles: exploring professional identity formation among disabled healthcare students and clinicians.
Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract
November 2024
Article Synopsis
- Developing a strong professional identity is key for healthcare professionals, influenced by critical social perspectives, especially regarding disabled individuals.
- This study investigates how disabled students and clinicians in healthcare shape their professional identity through in-depth interviews, revealing two main aspects: identity formation processes' context and identity navigation between professional and disability identities.
- The findings highlight the need for supportive environments to aid disabled students and practitioners in negotiating their identities, suggesting a re-evaluation of professionalism concepts in healthcare.
Inequitable variation in physician effort and resource use is revealed.
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- The article discusses ongoing challenges in understanding the value and application of evidence in health professions education, questioning how effectively research translates into practice and policy.
- By using Argyris' learning loops framework, the authors examine evidence from different perspectives, concluding that current expectations may be too high for both knowledge producers and consumers, indicating a need for broader, system-wide approaches.
- They advocate for better tracking of how research is utilized in practice, promoting an understanding of scholarly work as a means to foster dialogue rather than solely serving practical decision-making needs.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to understand how spousal caregivers of people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and cognitive and/or behavioural impairments felt about the EMBRACE intervention.
Materials And Methods: A qualitative interpretive study, using individual semi-structured interviews pre- and post-participation in a palliative rehabilitation blended learning programme, was applied. In total, 13 spousal caregivers were interviewed pre-intervention and 10 of them post-intervention.