The experience of practice development: an exploratory telephone interview study

Garbett, R; McCormack, Brendan

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2702.2001.00455.x

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“…These are related to the short time spent when conducting phone interviews compared to face to face interviews in terms of capturing the participants' in-depth perception (Novick, 2008;Chapple, 1999;Creswell, 1998;Garbett & McCormack 2001;McCoyd & Kerson, 2006, Sturges & Hanrahan, 2004Sweet, 2002), and the absence of visual cues such as physical features of the respondent, information about the environment, facial expressions, body language, and spoken words (Burnard, 1994;Carr & Worth, 2001;Creswell, 1998;Chapple, 1999;Novick, 2008;Opdenakker, 2006, Tausig & Freeman, 1988.…”

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Factors that influence engagement in on-site environmentally responsible behaviours at music festivals

Alonso-Vazquez¹

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The study of on-site environmentally responsible behaviours at outdoor events is important because of the negative environmental degradation that may be caused when hosting these events. Studying these behaviours is especially important at music festivals that are held in protected areas, and/or for festival managers who have an interest in controlling the events' negative environmental impacts. Despite recent interest by event managers in developing strategies to encourage attendees' environmentally responsible behaviours, this task is still a challenge because attendees may be disinterested in behaving pro-environmentally in the music festival context. Given this, event managers need to find novel ways to encourage attendees to participate more in on-site environmentally responsible behaviours.To contribute toward finding alternative ways to encourage more participation, this research investigated the major psychographic factors that influence attendees' engagement in on-site environmentally responsible behaviours at music festivals. To identify these factors, the following research activities were carried out: phone interviews with music festival managers (10 participants); two online questionnaires (pre-visit and post-visit to festivals) across multiple music festivals (1,313 and 420 participants, respectively); and on-site interviews with attendees at a three-day music festival located near an Australian national park (81 participants).The findings of this study reveal that event managers consider it important to build a proenvironmental culture into their event communities in order to capitalise on attendees' sense of community that may support environmentally responsible behaviours. The analysis also provides evidence of discrepancies between attendees' intentions to behave in an environmentally responsible way at the music festivals and their actual behaviours.Psychographic factors such as pro-environmental predisposition, self-identity as eco-friendly, festival attachment, place attachment, on-site management strategies, perceived benefits and barriers are all important contributors to attendees' on-site behaviours. Further, the study finds that some attendees exceed their intentions to behave responsibly towards the environment and that this is linked with their perceptions of the music festival's green status.Attendees also consider it important to behave in an environmentally responsible way on-site because of the benefits they perceive for the well-being of both the festival community and the environment. In terms of barriers to engaging in on-site environmentally responsible behaviours, the findings reveal that the main obstacle for attendees is the belief that their actions will not make a difference.These results are of great significance to event management settings and can contribute to the design of management strategies to encourage attendees' on-site eco-friendly behaviours.

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Factors that influence engagement in on-site environmentally responsible behaviours at music festivals

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“…This ambiguity in defi ning what the practice development role is has been discussed by many authors, taking different trends and directions into account. Some have addressed how practice development is heavily linked in with research activities (Clarke and Proctor, 1999;Royal College of Nursing, 2007), whereas others have addressed concept analyses of the subject and role, (Garbett and McCormack, 2001;McCormack et al, 2004;Unsworth, 2000). Further authors have broken down the role into skills and qualities (Garbett and McCormack, 2002).…”

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Supporting clinical innovation: An organization‐wide approach to practice‐based development

McGeehan

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Gilsenan

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Practice Dev Hlth Care

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Key words: engaging clinicians, innovative practice, linking clinical activities, practice development IntroductionWho is best placed to serve the practice development needs of clinicians within NHS institutions? There have been many theories and concepts discussed around the subject of practice development and what this role entails (Clarke, 1999;Garbett and McCormack, 2002;McCormack et al., 2004;McSherry and Warr, 2008). The authors of these articles are usually seated within academic and research institutions. The present article outlines how a practice development team was set up in a busy NHS Foundation Trust. We describe how that team infl uences and supports clinical practice across a wide range of activities. We also refl ect on the introduction of a new terminology -that of practice-based development, a concept situated within health care settings using health care staff developing practice. What does the literature say about practice development?The term 'practice development' has been used extensively across the NHS in the UK since the late 1970s, but has been discussed within the international arena for longer (McSherry and Warr, 2008). Finding a defi nition that pinpoints exactly what the role entails is more diffi cult. It seems to have emerged as a wide umbrella term that means many things to many people. This ambiguity in defi ning what the practice development role is has been discussed by many authors, taking different trends and directions into account. Some have addressed how practice development is heavily linked in with research activities (Clarke and Proctor, 1999; Royal College of Nursing, 2007), whereas others have addressed concept analyses of the subject and role, (Garbett and McCormack, 2001;McCormack et al., 2004;Unsworth, 2000). Further authors have broken down the role into skills and qualities (Garbett and McCormack, 2002). The only consensus would seem that it is a very varied role and diffi cult to pin down! Transforming the contexts and cultures in which nursing care takes place. 3.Employing a systematic approach to bring about changes in practice. 4.The continuous nature of activity within practice development. 5.The nature and extent of assistance required for change to take place.Gilsenan (2004) supports this emphasis of practice development on the fundamentals of evidence-based practice. She further suggests that practice development is any systematic approach to examining the effectiveness of patient care and developing alternatives where needed. In today's health care setting, the extent of patient care activities and developing these services is far reaching and diverse. Gilsenan (2004) also discusses ways to achieve practice development and identifi es that staff need to formulate their own clinical questions to identify issues in practice. They then need to select the right people that they feel would be suitable to challenge the identifi ed issues to develop evidence-based outcomes. She does not, however, identify who these staff should be, but hints at clini...

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“…(p. 215) However, the methodological complexity in operationalising eight theories and 20 sub-theories in any one project is not addressed and thus, whilst Fay clearly articulates a comprehensive theory of critical social science, little consideration of methodological approaches is proffered. Given the tensions that exist between ad hoc and systematic development activities, the complexity of PD roles and the lack of preparation for practice developers (Garbett & McCormack, 2001), then the expectation of 'holding' these theories and sub-theories in balance would appear to be unrealistic. Thus far, despite the claims for critical social science as the underpinning framework for emancipatory PD (e.g.…”

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Critical creativity: melding, exploding, blending

McCormack

Titchen

2006

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The experience of practice development: an exploratory telephone interview study

Cited by 61 publications

References 15 publications

Factors that influence engagement in on-site environmentally responsible behaviours at music festivals

Factors that influence engagement in on-site environmentally responsible behaviours at music festivals

Supporting clinical innovation: An organization‐wide approach to practice‐based development

Critical creativity: melding, exploding, blending

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