Article Text
Abstract
The majority of healthcare professionals regularly witness fragility, suffering, pain and death in their professional lives. Such experiences may increase the risk of burnout and compassion fatigue, especially if they are without self-awareness and a healthy work environment. Acquiring a deeper understanding of vulnerability inherent to their professional work will be of crucial importance to face these risks. From a relational ethics perspective, the role of the team is critical in the development of professional values which can help to cope with the inherent vulnerability of healthcare professionals. The focus of this paper is the role of Communities of Practice as a source of resilience, since they can create a reflective space for recognising and sharing their experiences of vulnerability that arises as part of their work. This shared knowledge can be a source of strength while simultaneously increasing the confidence and resilience of the healthcare team.
- professional - professional relationship
- interests of health personnel/institutions
- history of health ethics/bioethics
- ethics
Data availability statement
There are no data in this work
Statistics from Altmetric.com
Read the full text or download the PDF:
Other content recommended for you
- Towards collective moral resilience: the potential of communities of practice during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
- Intergroup relationships and quality improvement in healthcare
- Using graphic illustrations to uncover how a community of practice can influence the delivery of compassionate healthcare
- Evidence based guidelines or collectively constructed “mindlines?” Ethnographic study of knowledge management in primary care
- Soft networks for bridging the gap between research and practice: illuminative evaluation of CHAIN
- How and why to use ‘vulnerability’: an interdisciplinary analysis of disease risk, indeterminacy and normality
- Multidisciplinary centres for safety and quality improvement: learning from climate change science
- Are you really doing ‘codesign’? Critical reflections when working with vulnerable populations
- Back to the future: education or training for paediatricians?
- A glossary of theories for understanding power and policy for health equity