Healthcare pedagogy, COVID transformations, and the operating department practitioner.

Morris, Edwina and Bartholomew, Michael (2025) Healthcare pedagogy, COVID transformations, and the operating department practitioner. In: Autoethnography Pedagogy and Practice. Stories of Interdisciplinary Innovation. Taylor & Francis, pp. 1-17. ISBN 9781032708614

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Abstract

In this chapter, we explore our transformative journeys within the discipline of healthcare. We examine how our pedagogy—specifically how trainee Operating Department Practitioners learn to work as effective members of the operating theatre team—changed in response to the challenges and opportunities posed by the pandemic. For Edwina, a lecturer and doctoral student, planned research within a clinical setting had to be cancelled. While devastating, the pandemic opened opportunities to begin writing and sharing personal stories from her nursing practice. Doing so provided a route to continue with her doctoral research, as well as a way to engage students more deeply in reflective practice by creating space to write autoethnographically. From the embers of an impossible situation, pedagogy evolved into something meaningful for both teacher and student.

Item Type: Book Chapter or Section
Identifier: 10.4324/9781032708614
Keywords: Autoethnography; healthcare pedagogy; COVID; Operating Department Practitioners (ODPs); Reflective practice
Subjects: Social sciences > Social work
Depositing User: Edwina Morris
Date Deposited: 11 Jun 2025 09:41
Last Modified: 11 Jun 2025 10:45
URI: https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/13788

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