Building a Learning Organization for Primary Care Units using Constructivist Theory
Learning Organization for Primary Care Units
Keywords:
primary care unit, learning organization, constructivist theoryAbstract
The concept of a learning organization is used in implementing primary care units to achieve collaborative processes. Personnel who have taken real action, review their own knowledge until finding appropriate knowledge in contextual services is the refore important. This mixed methods research aimed to understand building a Learning Organization for Primary Care Units using Constructivist theory from Lamphun's experiences. The data was collected by using 1) score of learning organization assessment questionnaires in 54 primary health care personnel 2) semi-structured deep interviews about the activities related to constructivist theory from six personnel who have been involved in project improvement. The study period was July 2018-May 2019. Data were presented in frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. Data were compared before and after joining this program with the paired t-test with statistic significant level at 0.05. For the interview data, the content analysis was based on triangular content. The study found that learning improvement project could increase all dimension of learning organization score with significantly statistic (except dimension 3) and the highest in dimension 5 (Empowerment). In conclusion, lesson learned from peers, teams/groups storytelling, task achieving, state their view and ask what other thinks are important activities in the project that consistent with Constructivist theory
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