Katherine Pollard's Outputs (29)

Interprofessional Working in Health and Social Care: Professional Perspectives (2014)
Book

This edited book discusses the rationale, skills and conditions required for effective interprofessional working. In addition, it provides an overview of the roles and perspectives of different health professionals across a broad range of expertise:... Read More about Interprofessional Working in Health and Social Care: Professional Perspectives.

The need for interprofessional working (2014)
Book Chapter

Interprofessional working with service users and carers (2014)
Book Chapter

The University of the West of England (2014)
Book Chapter

An account of the development and implementation of interprofessional education at UWE Bristol between 2001 and 2013.

Using the Plan-Do-Study-Act model: Pacesetters experiences (2013)
Journal Article

Purpose: This article aims to analytically review the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) model used in the Pacesetters national programme evaluation. Design/methodology/approach: The evaluation team's two-fold role is outlined: supporting project teams to deve... Read More about Using the Plan-Do-Study-Act model: Pacesetters experiences.

Theorising service user involvement from a researcher perspective (2013)
Book Chapter

In the United Kingdom, the Department of Health and many funding bodies increasingly expect public involvement in health and social care research. However, members of the public are often still only involved in research as subjects/participants, or i... Read More about Theorising service user involvement from a researcher perspective.

Interprofessional working (2009)
Book Chapter

The role of nurses in interprofessional health and social care teams (2009)
Journal Article

From students to professionals: Results of a longitudinal study of attitudes to pre-qualifying collaborative learning and working in health and social care in the United Kingdom (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

During a longitudinal evaluation of a pre-qualifying interprofessional curriculum, health and social care students completed questionnaires concerning communication and teamwork skills and interprofessional learning and working. Data were collected o... Read More about From students to professionals: Results of a longitudinal study of attitudes to pre-qualifying collaborative learning and working in health and social care in the United Kingdom.

Midwives interprofessional working: How their discursive practices relate to traditional discourses concerning power, gender, professionalism and the medicalisation of birth (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Evaluating student learning in an interprofessional curriculum: the relevance of pre-qualifying inter-professional education for future professional practice (2008)
Report

The focus of this study was qualified health and social care professionals’ views about their experience of pre-qualifying interprofessional education (IPE). Adult nurses, midwives, physiotherapists, and social workers were interviewed.

Career choices in health care: Is nursing a special case? A content analysis of survey data (2007)
Journal Article

Background: As demand for nurses and other health professionals continues to outstrip supply it is important to understand what motivates individuals to join a non-medical health profession. Objectives: The objectives of this study were to investigat... Read More about Career choices in health care: Is nursing a special case? A content analysis of survey data.

Evaluation of a health and social care pre-qualifying interprofessional curriculum (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Physiotherapy students attitudes towards interprofessional learning (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A comparison of interprofessional perceptions and working relationships among health and social care students: The results of a 3-year intervention (2006)
Journal Article

A longitudinal quantitative study in an English faculty of health and social care explored the effects of a pre-qualifying interprofessional curriculum for students from 10 professional programmes. Students on the interprofessional curriculum complet... Read More about A comparison of interprofessional perceptions and working relationships among health and social care students: The results of a 3-year intervention.

The use of complementary therapies in maternity services: A survey (2006)
Journal Article

Exploring inter-professional interaction in English maternity care: Methodological issues arising from a critical discourse analysis research approach (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Midwives and perceptions of normality: A critical discourse analysis (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

1.4 Searching for autonomy (2006)
Book Chapter

Working together to evaluate and develop an interprofessional curriculum: Meeting the research challenge (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Second year scepticism: Pre-qualifying health and social care students' midpoint self-assessment, attitudes and perceptions concerning interprofessional learning and working (2005)
Journal Article

A study in an English Faculty of Health and Social Care explores the effects of a pre-qualifying interprofessional curriculum incorporating interprofessional modules in each year of study. The study design involves collecting data on entry to the Fac... Read More about Second year scepticism: Pre-qualifying health and social care students' midpoint self-assessment, attitudes and perceptions concerning interprofessional learning and working.

Does being 'with women' mean being 'with midwives'? How relationships between midwives affect their support for women's choices in childbirth in the U.K. (2005)
Book Chapter

The publishers invited the author to contribute this chapter to a volume demonstrating the breadth of international midwifery research, alongside contributions from America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. Reports original qualitative data from a... Read More about Does being 'with women' mean being 'with midwives'? How relationships between midwives affect their support for women's choices in childbirth in the U.K..

How does the motivation of direct-entry student midwives relate to current discourses in midwifery? (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Collaborative learning for collaborative working? Initial findings from a longitudinal study of health and social care students (2004)
Journal Article

This paper presents the initial findings from a longitudinal quantitative study of two cohorts of students who entered the 10 pre-qualifying programmes of the Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, UK. Th... Read More about Collaborative learning for collaborative working? Initial findings from a longitudinal study of health and social care students.

Capturing the transference of interprofessional pre-registration students: Learning to practice (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A qualitative longitudinal study of small groups of health and social care students' experience of interprofessional education (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Health and social care students and interprofessional learning, opinion, attitudes and self assessment of relevant skills (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Netherlands: A different view (1997)
Journal Article

Birth matters (1996)
Journal Article