From: Communities of practice in Alberta Health Services: advancing a learning organisation
Influences | Participant quotes | Role |
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Information pathways | “On my team, [the CoP] does allow me to bring forward a perspective from the [geographic] zones. So I am around a lot of provincial teams in other departments as well so I can then bring their [CoP] voice to other tables, and to my team.” (Enterprise-wide CoP – 021) | Sponsor |
“The team knows that I and [others] are linked to other CoPs and they’re now asking us to bring the information from those CoPs back to ours to help them expand their information.” (Zone-wide CoP – 026) | Facilitator | |
“Only through that dialogue and through networking could we create a situation where it would it become part and parcel of the business that we do.” (Enterprise-wide CoP – 013) | Member | |
Point of care capacity | “Solutions are coming from the grassroots that no one person or site could have come up with. Shows the power of collective sharing of the good and the bad.” (Enterprise-wide CoP – 006) | Facilitator |
“I might see a nurse who’s on the floor who is a [CoP] member and maybe we have a difficult case, I can touch base and say ‘hey, do you know anything about this patient’, and engage in conversation.” (Site-specific CoP – 002) | Facilitator | |
“We might in turn share how a particular strategy worked for that [patient] file that [members] might try, you know, that might influence someone else’s approach to a similar file …” (Zone-wide CoP – 011) | Member |