{"id":630,"date":"2024-04-08T20:30:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T00:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=630"},"modified":"2024-04-08T20:31:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T00:31:01","slug":"6-5-2-membership","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/chapter\/6-5-2-membership\/","title":{"raw":"6.5.2 Membership","rendered":"6.5.2 Membership"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>Association Membership<\/h2>\r\nMembership in professional organizations is a way for professionals with comparable objectives to link together to have the voice of many, versus the voice of one.\u00a0Professional Nursing organizations and networks are effective tools for:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Professional development<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Career advancement<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Practice support[footnote]Canadian Nurses Association, n.d[\/footnote]<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nJoining an organization can assist with:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Personal growth<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Increased professional potential<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Knowledge growth<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Support to generate change<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Legal support\/advice[footnote]Cline et al., 2019[\/footnote]<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h2>Communities of practice<\/h2>\r\nAs we have discussed in previous lessons, communities of practice are important as a professional learning and support strategy. These are a type of professional association that have the potential to:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Connect people<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Provide a shared context for people to communicate and share<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Foster conversation between people who come together to:<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Explore possibilities<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Resolve perplexing problems<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Generate new opportunities<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Stimulate learning through communication, mentoring, coaching, and self-reflection<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Capture and share current understanding to help individuals improve their practice<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Present collaborative practices to groups and organizations<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Help people organize around focused actions<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Produce innovative understandings to help people transform their practice[footnote]Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium, 2016[\/footnote]<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<h2>Association Membership<\/h2>\n<p>Membership in professional organizations is a way for professionals with comparable objectives to link together to have the voice of many, versus the voice of one.\u00a0Professional Nursing organizations and networks are effective tools for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professional development<\/li>\n<li>Career advancement<\/li>\n<li>Practice support<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Canadian Nurses Association, n.d\" id=\"return-footnote-630-1\" href=\"#footnote-630-1\" aria-label=\"Footnote 1\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Joining an organization can assist with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Personal growth<\/li>\n<li>Increased professional potential<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge growth<\/li>\n<li>Support to generate change<\/li>\n<li>Legal support\/advice<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Cline et al., 2019\" id=\"return-footnote-630-2\" href=\"#footnote-630-2\" aria-label=\"Footnote 2\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[2]<\/sup><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Communities of practice<\/h2>\n<p>As we have discussed in previous lessons, communities of practice are important as a professional learning and support strategy. These are a type of professional association that have the potential to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Connect people<\/li>\n<li>Provide a shared context for people to communicate and share<\/li>\n<li>Foster conversation between people who come together to:<\/li>\n<li>Explore possibilities<\/li>\n<li>Resolve perplexing problems<\/li>\n<li>Generate new opportunities<\/li>\n<li>Stimulate learning through communication, mentoring, coaching, and self-reflection<\/li>\n<li>Capture and share current understanding to help individuals improve their practice<\/li>\n<li>Present collaborative practices to groups and organizations<\/li>\n<li>Help people organize around focused actions<\/li>\n<li>Produce innovative understandings to help people transform their practice<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium, 2016\" id=\"return-footnote-630-3\" href=\"#footnote-630-3\" aria-label=\"Footnote 3\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[3]<\/sup><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr class=\"before-footnotes clear\" \/><div class=\"footnotes\"><ol><li id=\"footnote-630-1\">Canadian Nurses Association, n.d <a href=\"#return-footnote-630-1\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 1\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-630-2\">Cline et al., 2019 <a href=\"#return-footnote-630-2\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 2\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-630-3\">Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium, 2016 <a href=\"#return-footnote-630-3\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 3\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"author":517,"menu_order":19,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-630","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":61,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/630\/revisions\/631"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/61"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/630\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}