Nursing - Affect the Culture you Work in

CL'cK Event Guest Speaker

Teleconference: October 25th, 2011 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT

Are there aspects of your work environment that you think need to change? What is the role of nurses in improving the healthcare sector? What can you do, from where you are--is there anything?? If you're passionate about the work you do but feel that there are barriers that need to be talked about, then this is your chance to connect with nurses across the province to share and plan for the future.

Guest June Kaminski RN MSN PhD(c), currently teaching at Kwantlen Polytechnic University BSN Nursing Program, will share her experiences and views on how to affect nursing culture. She blogs at Nurse Activism and Nurse Informatics.

This is a community of practice meeting open to anyone interested in Learning and Leadership in the healthcare sector. Everyone was invited to participate in this teleconference!

Teleconference Overview

Nina (CL'ck Leader): What is a community, goal is to build community here -- good goal agree? What the community here looks like - online discussion and sharing of info, teleconferences, support of individuals in CL'cK network.

1. What defines the culture now, particularly the culture related to learning, and sharing of info across the province (and beyond), and across different clinical areas?

Nina: brief overview of culture (good and bad)

Right now, mostly expert-based, specialist-based, very hierarchical. culture not always conducive for nurses to speak up and share their knowledge openly, culture of online sharing is for the large part new (tho there are some examples and newer nurses would have likely participated in online discussions in school). also culture sometimes would see these sort of teleconferences as not being 'work'...hard to get time off for learning purposes especially self-directed learning.

Include pros as well -- sandwich effect! Pros include very diligent and compassionate individuals. Very focused on making sure things are done right and according to policy. People want to keep learning/being uptodate and this is integrated into the culture.

June to provide her thoughts, followed by comments from group -- back and forth as appropriate, facilitated by Nina.

2. June's experience in building a community of practice?

Nina: Define Community of Practice and underline again what we are working on building here.
June: Describe her experience (short summary)

3. What can the CL'cK community do to encourage a learning culture, encourage people to meet on these teleconferences, encourage people to use the online discussion board, increase confidence of individuals in the CL'cK community?

June to lead discussion, others to comment and discuss -- back and forth discussion facilitated by Nina.

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