Main description:

This book focusses on the move to digitally mediated forms of teaching, learning and practice during Covid-19 and offers a series of case studies which showcase positive practices during this time.

Education, Health and Social Work services have all been at the forefront of national debate since the first UK lockdown in March 2020. Schools, Colleges and Higher Education institutions moved rapidly to online delivery, with educators, parents, practice learning partners and students alike compelled to adapt to online connection, disrupting previous norms and forcing a rapid acquisition of new skills.

In health and social care practice, there has been a similar move to online delivery, whilst maintaining consistency of service and support. The pandemic also coincided with the recommendations of the national Digital Capabilities for Social Work project, commissioned by Health Education England, which produced a prescient framework for professional practice.

This book showcases innovative ways in which practice and education have responded to the challenges of Covid 19. With ongoing debate about planning for the next pandemic, as well as adapting to the post Covid landscape, the book is a valuable resource for all those involved in health and social work education and practice.

Contents:

Foreword: Mark Nicholas, Chief Social Worker for NHS Digital

About this book: Dr Denise Turner and Dr Michael Fanner

Section 1: Perspectives from Higher Education

Chapter 1: "The trouble with normal ..." Covid-19's legacy and the multipotentiality for co-creating teaching, learning and assessing: Professor David Evans, OBE

Chapter 2: Reflecting on Population Health Learning in Pre-Registration Paramedic Education during a Global Pandemic: Dr Michael Fanner

Chapter 3: How Covid-19 has impacted upon the practice learning experience of pre-registration nursing students: Barbara Hoyle

Chapter 4: COVID-19 and The Virtual Generation: Sarah Anderson, Cheryl Bardell, Abigail Doe, Emma Grady, Chloe Harrison, David Healey, Toritseju K. Imewe, Peter McNally, Lydia Nambe and Karen Skinner (BASW Students)

Chapter 5: 'I am not a cat': Digital Capabilities and Covid-19: Dr Denise Turner

Section 2: Perspectives from Practice

Chapter 6: Educating the future health workforce for the delivery of 21st Century Care: Henrietta Mbeah Bankas

Chapter 7: Putting Down the Laptop and Rolling Up the Sleeves - Mobilising a workforce of medical students to the Covid-19 frontline and its impact on their education: George Keal

Chapter 8: Digitalising the Volunteer Workforce Development to Support the NHS Delivery during Covid-19: Craig Harman

Chapter 9: Practice Teaching Experiences of Preparing Redeployed Workforces for Critical Care during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Tim Kuhn

Section 3: Perspectives on Environments, Creativity and Wellbeing

Chapter 10: Supporting care homes to be digitally connected: Hilary Woodhead and Natalie Ravenscroft

Chapter 11: Creative Social Work in a Virtual World Connection and Creativity: A case study on a Work Based Learning Module: Michaela Dunn, Rachel Hughes, and Andrew Linton

Chapter 12: Mindfulness, social work leadership and Covid-19: Annie Ho

Chapter 13: Can we keep the environment in mind while we adjust to renewed freedoms?: Dr Sandra Engstrom

Concluding Thoughts: Dr Denise Turner and Dr Michael Fanner