Abstract
Although the community of practice (CoP) concept has been heavily utilized in business literature since its inception in the 1990s, it has not been significantly featured in nursing research. With student-centered approaches increasingly infusing nursing classrooms, including opportunities for collaborative learning and the development of student learning communities, it may be time to ask: Do we practice what we teach? Nursing academia faces challenges related to recruitment and retention, scholarly productivity and engagement of new faculty, and increasing demands for collaborative research. Challenges, some would argue, that could be addressed through CoPs; a sentiment reflected in the recent expansion of nursing CoP literature. What is the current state of the application of this concept in nursing academia and what barriers present in the promotion and development of CoPs in the academy? This article addresses these questions and provides guidance for those in search of community.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Masthead
- Masthead
- Cultural Competence and Cultural Safety in Canadian Schools of Nursing: A Mixed Methods Study
- Education Reforms in Nigeria: How Responsive is the Nursing Profession?
- Writing History: Case Study of the University of Victoria School of Nursing
- Fear and Loathing: Undergraduate Nursing Students’ Experiences of a Mandatory Course in Applied Statistics
- How does the Nurse Educator Measure Caring?
- Psychometric Properties of the Lasater Clinical Judgment Rubric
- Arts-Based Learning: Analysis of the Concept for Nursing Education
- Critical Service Learning in Community Health Nursing: Enhancing Access to Cardiac Health Screening
- Collaborative Learning Using Nursing Student Dyads in the Clinical Setting
- The Effect of Social Contingencies on Nursing Students’ Reactions During a Rural Clinical Placement
- Voices of Innovation: Building a Model for Curriculum Transformation
- Bridging the Gap: Clinical Practice Nursing and the Effect of Role Strain on Successful Role Transition and Intent to Stay in Academia
- Resisting, Reaching Out and Re-imagining to Independence: LPN’s Transitioning towards BNs and Beyond
- Exploring the Issue of Failure to Fail in a Nursing Program
- Inclusive Mosaic: Promoting Diversity in Nursing through Youth Mentorship
- Interactive Learning Research: Application of Cognitive Load Theory to Nursing Education
- The Relevance of Indigenous Knowledge for Nursing Curriculum
- The Value of Community-Focused Interprofessional Care in Peru for Developing Cultural Competency in Health Professions Students
- Female Arab-Muslim Nursing Students’ Reentry Transitions
- High Fidelity Simulation Effectiveness in Nursing Students’ Transfer of Learning
- Communities of Practice in Nursing Academia: A Growing Need to Practice What We Teach
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- The Emerging Doctor of Education (EdD) in Instructional Leadership for Nurse Educators
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- Reading Ella: Using Literary Patients to Enhance Nursing Students’ Reflective Thinking in the Classroom
- Accelerated Baccalaureate Nursing Students Use of Emotional Intelligence in Nursing as “Caring for a Human Being”: A Mixed Methods Grounded Theory Study
- Effective Classroom Teaching Methods: A Critical Incident Technique from Millennial Nursing Students’ Perspective
- Simulation Education Approaches to Enhance Collaborative Healthcare: A Best Practices Review
- Erratum to 5-Years Later – Have Faculty Integrated Medical Genetics into Nurse Practitioner Curriculum?