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Working and learning in communities of practice

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posted on 2008-01-01, 00:00 authored by J Higgs, Rola AjjawiRola Ajjawi, M Smith
his book provides comprehensive coverage of the key issues and perspectives in the current practice of physiotherapy, focussing on the issues that are not taught in 'clinical' texts yet that underpin professional practice. The book helps students gain a good understanding of the physiotherapy profession. It will introduce students to the key practice issues included in professional entry curricula: history of the profession, the workforce and roles of physiotherapists, ethics, law, reflective practice, clinical reasoning, teamwork, and other professional issues within the field of physiotherapy.

History

Chapter number

9

Pagination

117-127

ISBN-13

9780729538862

ISBN-10

0729538869

Language

eng

Publication classification

B1.1 Book chapter

Copyright notice

2009, Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier

Editor/Contributor(s)

Higgs J, Smith M, Webb G, Skinner M, Croker A

Publisher

Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier

Place of publication

Chatswood, N.S.W.

Title of book

Contexts of physiotherapy practice