Care Trajectory Management Foundations in the organising work of nurses

‘Care trajectory management’ refers to the work that nurses do to coordinate and organise patient care. It’s a relatively unseen element of the nursing role that is absolutely vital for patient safety and quality care.

Care Trajectory Management for Nurses is the first ever textbook of its kind for nurse educators, practice facilitators and policy makers as well as undergraduate nurses. It is both a theoretical and practical resource covering the concepts and theories around the organisational components of nursing practice, derived the research of nurse academic Davina Allen.

This excellent book will help prepare nurses to be the ‘glue’ in increasingly complex healthcare systems, and provides an excellent foundation for embedding this important subject into student curricula.

• The first textbook of its kind - a valuable resource for both experienced nurses and undergraduates
• Evidence-based - derived from research led by the author

Covers:

• The history of nursing’s professional development
• Professional identity
• Healthcare quality and safety
• Healthcare systems
• Managing complexity
• Care coordination
• Tacit knowledge
• Nursing theory
• Organising work
• Care Trajectory Management Framework
• Translational mobilisation theory

• Illustrative case studies based on observational studies bring theory to life
• Exercises, quick quizzes and reflective practice help to apply learning
• Online downloadable workbooks to organise learning

Davina Allen is a sociologist and nurse academic with research interests in nursing, healthcare work organisation, and service improvement. She has expertise in ethnographic research methods and the use of sociological theories in developing practice insights and advancing the science of improvement in health and social care. Her research encompasses foundational ethnographic studies of organisational phenomena, a long-standing programme of research on nursing work, and large-scale applied research projects. This includes work at the forefront of new approaches to evidence synthesis, methodological advances in the development, implementation and evaluation of theoretically informed complex interventions, and theory development. She is currently Head Research & Innovation (HCARE), Professor II (Care Centre NTNU, GjØvik, Norway), and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Canada. She is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Health Foundation Improvement Science Fellow.