1st Edition
Digital Connection in Health and Social Work Perspectives from Covid-19
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
Biography
Dr Denise Turner is an experienced, registered Social Worker and currently works as a Senior Lecturer in Social Work.
Her research interests encompass digital practices and death, loss and bereavement. She was Chair of the Advisory Group for the national Digital Capabilities project for Social Work, delivered by SCIE and BASW and is interested in the positive challenges of digital media. She has authored a book on parents’ experiences of the professional response to sudden, unexpected child death and is currently involved with research focused on bereavement and grief resulting from Covid19.
Dr Michael Fanner works an applied social researcher in various areas of health visiting policy and practice.
Michael is also a clinician and has previously worked in higher education on a number of health and social care professional programmes. Michael is passionate about ensuring health and social care delivery and interventions are evidence-based, and are informed by those who work in practice and those who receives services.
In the context of the move towards Integrated Care Systems, this book reinforces how digital collaboration and connection can create value across the social care and health sectors. It provides both a fascinating insight into how clinicians and professionals have used digital to tackle pandemic challenges, and an inspiration to those who want to build on this learning. I recommend it to all health and social care leaders, especially those with a role in Integrated Care Systems or an interest in digital technology.
Mark Nicholas, MBA, MSW, CQSWChief Social Worker and Social Care Lead, NHS Digital“…This edited text…captures a significant moment in time for the health and social care sector…It illuminates the importance of what a number of us in Social Work have been lamenting for a significant period, that the design, content and delivery of professional programmes should reflect the world in which students will go on to practice within…Like with Turner’s previous text, this book serves as a prompt for practice development, both in the educational and field context. I urge those invested in the development of health and social care to listen carefully to the diverse range of voices in this text, and perhaps like me you will begin to adjust your own practices as a result of this experiential read.”
Dr Amanda Taylor-BeswickLecturer, School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, Queens University BelfastAlthough the COVID-19 pandemic was initially a medical and health emergency its effects have been felt through all aspects of society. Denise Turner and Michael Fanner as editors of Digital Connection in Health and Social Work – Perspectives from COVID 19 have reflected this community wide experience by collating essays from a wide range of authors. Although the collection is primarily academic in nature by bringing together this mix of different skills, professional disciplines and backgrounds, the editors have created a work that will be of interest to a much wider readership that just the academic world.
Stephen Frost CStJVice Chancellor of The Priory of England & the Islands of The Order of St John
