The Implementation of a Model of Person-Centred Practice In Older ...

The implementation of a model of person-centred practice in older person settings
by cultures of empowerment that foster continuous approaches to practice
development”
Programme objectives
1. Coordinate a programme of work that can replicate effective PD processes in
care of older people’s settings.
2. Enable participants/local facilitators and their directors and managers to
recognise the attributes of person-centred cultures for older people and key
practice development and management interventions needed to achieve the
culture (thus embedding person-centred care within organisations).
3. Develop person-centred cultures in participating practice settings.
4. Systematically measure or evaluate outcomes on practice and for older people.
5. Further test a model of person-centred practice in long term care/rehabilitation
settings and develop it as a multi-professional model.
6. Utilise a participant generated data-set to inform the development and outcomes
of person-centred practice (already designed and tested tools will be used to
produce data set).
7. Enable local NMPDU facilitators to work with shared principles, models, methods
and processes in practice development work across older people’s services.
PROGRAMME METHODOLOGY
The programme drew on numerous principles from different yet complementary
theories and approaches: emancipatory practice development, co-operative inquiry
and a specific person-centred nursing framework (McCormack and McCance 2006;
2010 in press). Additionally, through the programmes activities another methodology
emerged, namely ‘Active Learning’ (Dewing 2008 and 2009; McCormack et al 2009).
Within the emancipatory practice development approach, for the aims of this
programme, particular emphasis was placed on evaluation and on learning. Within
the programme, the Active Learning methodology was systematically tested refined
and expanded. The methodology will now be described in more detail.
Practice Development
Practice development is often conceptualised as a continuous multifaceted journey
(McCormack et al 2004). The term practice development is widely used within the
nursing profession in the United Kingdom and Australia. Given it is a relatively young
field, it is evolving rapidly and becoming increasingly theoretically complex. Manley
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