Supporting Health and Social Care Students Stay and Stay Well: A Conceptual Framework for Implementing Integrated Care Into Higher Education
Integrated care demands a workforce that is confident, capable and compassionate. This is dependent on a willingness to work inter-professionally and understand the roles, standards and values of other professional groups. However, there are few examples of integrated care initiatives within higher...
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| description | Integrated care demands a workforce that is confident, capable and compassionate. This is dependent on a willingness to work inter-professionally and understand the roles, standards and values of other professional groups. However, there are few examples of integrated care initiatives within higher education that aim to build the knowledge and skills required to support effective integrated, people-centred care. While satisfying, working in the helping professions is emotionally challenging and for students’ these challenges are often underestimated. Some students struggle through their studies with many failing to complete and others drop out in the early years of their careers. Understanding what supports students to thrive in their professional roles is essential to retention of a highly skilled integrated workforce. To address this challenge, this paper outlines a conceptual framework designed to promote a pedagogical environment focused on creating the conditions for integrated working. The framework is based on the “student lifecycle”, from starting to see the benefits of a career in the helping professions, developing a sense of belonging through to thriving and succeeding as future practitioners. It outlines how students are supported to develop emotional resilience, inter-professional empathy and reflexivity to help them stay and stay well in their careers. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-1dec328109504b459d0e0e31806704442025-02-11T05:33:50ZengUbiquity PressInternational Journal of Integrated Care1568-41562025-01-01252210.5334/ijic.77727668Supporting Health and Social Care Students Stay and Stay Well: A Conceptual Framework for Implementing Integrated Care Into Higher EducationLouise Grant0https://orcid.org/0009-0007-2778-7826Lisa Bostock1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2714-9687Caroline Reid2Nasreen Ali3Fiona Factor4Department of Education and Training, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, 120 Belsize Lane, London NW3 5BAFaculty of Health and Social Sciences, University Square, UK; University of Bedfordshire, Luton, LU1 3JUFaculty of Health and Social Sciences, University Square, UK; University of Bedfordshire, Luton, LU1 3JUFaculty of Health and Social Sciences, University Square; University of Bedfordshire, Luton, LU1 3JUFaculty of Health and Social Sciences, University Square; University of Bedfordshire, Luton, LU1 3JUIntegrated care demands a workforce that is confident, capable and compassionate. This is dependent on a willingness to work inter-professionally and understand the roles, standards and values of other professional groups. However, there are few examples of integrated care initiatives within higher education that aim to build the knowledge and skills required to support effective integrated, people-centred care. While satisfying, working in the helping professions is emotionally challenging and for students’ these challenges are often underestimated. Some students struggle through their studies with many failing to complete and others drop out in the early years of their careers. Understanding what supports students to thrive in their professional roles is essential to retention of a highly skilled integrated workforce. To address this challenge, this paper outlines a conceptual framework designed to promote a pedagogical environment focused on creating the conditions for integrated working. The framework is based on the “student lifecycle”, from starting to see the benefits of a career in the helping professions, developing a sense of belonging through to thriving and succeeding as future practitioners. It outlines how students are supported to develop emotional resilience, inter-professional empathy and reflexivity to help them stay and stay well in their careers.https://account.ijic.org/index.php/up-j-ijic/article/view/7772integrated carehigher educationinter-professional educationpedagogyemotional resilienceinter-professional reflexivity |
| spellingShingle | Louise Grant Lisa Bostock Caroline Reid Nasreen Ali Fiona Factor Supporting Health and Social Care Students Stay and Stay Well: A Conceptual Framework for Implementing Integrated Care Into Higher Education International Journal of Integrated Care integrated care higher education inter-professional education pedagogy emotional resilience inter-professional reflexivity |
| title | Supporting Health and Social Care Students Stay and Stay Well: A Conceptual Framework for Implementing Integrated Care Into Higher Education |
| title_full | Supporting Health and Social Care Students Stay and Stay Well: A Conceptual Framework for Implementing Integrated Care Into Higher Education |
| title_fullStr | Supporting Health and Social Care Students Stay and Stay Well: A Conceptual Framework for Implementing Integrated Care Into Higher Education |
| title_full_unstemmed | Supporting Health and Social Care Students Stay and Stay Well: A Conceptual Framework for Implementing Integrated Care Into Higher Education |
| title_short | Supporting Health and Social Care Students Stay and Stay Well: A Conceptual Framework for Implementing Integrated Care Into Higher Education |
| title_sort | supporting health and social care students stay and stay well a conceptual framework for implementing integrated care into higher education |
| topic | integrated care higher education inter-professional education pedagogy emotional resilience inter-professional reflexivity |
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