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NES Health Visitor Practice Teacher event Sept 2014 2
- 1. Rites of passage: becoming a health visitor Dr Karen Strickland Associate Head, School of Nursing & Midwifery
- 3. Becoming a Health Visitor “Embarking” on HV education Learning “to be” a HV “Becoming” a HV Threshold • Disruption to previous identity • Undertaking new role • Uncertain knowledge • Uncertain territory Liminal Self • betwixt and between • Professional self unbalanced • Personal self unbalanced Post-liminal self P r o f e s s i o n a l t r a n s i t i o n
- 5. Disciplinary Bottlenecks! Procedural obstacles Emotional obstacles Knowledge obstacles Becoming a Health Visitor Adapted from Diaz et al, 2014
- 6. 1. Identify Bottlenecks Decoding the discipline 2.Define the processes that students need to master 3. Model these processes. 4. Create opportunities to practice and get feedback 5. Motivate students 7. Share what has been learned 6. Assess student mastery http://www.decodingthedisciplines.org/index. html Diaz et al, 2014 Middendorf & Pace, 2004
- 7. Supporting professional transitions: the practice teacher role • Assisting students to develop a sense of professional identity; • Consolidating students’ learning; • Enabling students to enhance professional skills and competencies; • Providing opportunities for consolidation of career development and planning processes; • Preparing students as ethical citizens and leaders. McNamara et al, 2011
- 8. Becoming a Health Visitor “Embarking” on HV education Learning “to be” a HV “Becoming” a HV Threshold • Disruption to previous identity • Undertaking new role • Uncertain knowledge • Uncertain territory Liminal Self • betwixt and between • Professional self unbalanced • Personal self unbalanced Post-liminal self • Transformation of the self • Reincorporation to new narrative • The student has become a Health visitor P r o f e s s i o n a l t r a n s i t i o n P r a c t i c e Te a c h e r R o l e
- 9. Conclusions • Supporting student health visitors is a partnership • The transition to becoming a health visitor is both a personal and professional journey • There are bottlenecks along the way!