‘Practice development is a way of being.’ Looking back on the 2018 Enhancing Practice Conference in Basel, Switzerland

‘Healthy workplace cultures – better care for patients’ - this was a key message of the 2018 Enhancing Practice Conference, highlighting the complex interrelation between leadership, culture and human flourishing. Creating healthy workplace cultures has proven to be an essential condition for practice development and person-centred healthcare. Leaders striving to achieve high-quality care should ensure the wellbeing of healthcare professionals. In a person-centred culture, patients and professionals should feel cared for and supported. It was a very special moment for the hosts to welcome the international practice development community to Basel on 22nd August. For the first time, the Enhancing Practice Conference, under the patronage of the International Practice Development Collaborative, was held in Switzerland, organised by the Practice Development Network of the University Hospitals of Basel, Bern and Zurich. More than 80 workshops, 26 show-and-tell presentations and six keynotes offered a broad access to the conference topic ‘leading and facilitating within practice development in healthcare’

Effect of the COPE Program on Self-Efficacy in Mothers of Preterm Infants

The birth of a premature infant and its subsequent hospitalization in the neonatal intensive care unit are stressful experiences for mothers. Because of uncertainty concerning interactions with a premature baby, mothers often feel helpless and only hesitantly assume their maternal role. This may have a negative impact on the mother-child interaction and prevents mothers from taking an active part in the care for their child. “Creating Opportunities for Parent Empowerment” (COPE) is a 4-phase educational intervention program aiming to systematically involve parents into caring for their premature infant. In this pretest-posttest quasi-experimental study in 2 Swiss university hospitals, we focused on maternal self-efficacy. We compared self-efficacy in mothers receiving the COPE program or standard care alone at baseline and 3 months after estimated delivery date. To measure maternal self-efficacy, we used the “Tool to measure Parenting Self-Efficacy” (TOPSE). While scores for “Emotion and Affection,” “Empathy and Understanding,” as well as “Learning and Knowledge” increased in both groups, only “Learning and Knowledge” scores were significantly higher in the intervention group. Given the intention of improving learning and knowledge, the COPE program might be a promising intervention contributing to enhanced maternal self-efficacy

Unpacking and Developing Facilitation

Caroline Dickson - ORCID: 0000-0001-5132-0109 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5132-0109Item is not available in this repository.https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/International+Practice+Development+in+Health+and+Social+Care,+2nd+Edition-p-9781119698357pubpu