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.

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• SECTION I What Is Care Trajectory Management and Why Does It Matter?1. Concepts and Making the Invisible, Visible2. Care Trajectories and Care Trajectory Management3. The Complexities of Healthcare Work4. Approaches to Organising Healthcare5. Care Trajectory Management and Healthcare Quality and Safety6. Care Trajectory Management and Professional IdentitySECTION II The Theory and Practice of Care Trajectory Management7. Conceptualising Healthcare Organisation for Care Trajectory Management8. Conceptualising Healthcare Work for Care Trajectory Management9. Conceptualising Care Trajectory Management in Nursing Practice10. Care Trajectory Management in Nursing PracticeAnswers to Quick QuizzesIndicative Answers to Selected Exercises

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.

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• SECTION I What Is Care Trajectory Management and Why Does It Matter?1. Concepts and Making the Invisible, Visible2. Care Trajectories and Care Trajectory Management3. The Complexities of Healthcare Work4. Approaches to Organising Healthcare5. Care Trajectory Management and Healthcare Quality and Safety6. Care Trajectory Management and Professional IdentitySECTION II The Theory and Practice of Care Trajectory Management7. Conceptualising Healthcare Organisation for Care Trajectory Management8. Conceptualising Healthcare Work for Care Trajectory Management9. Conceptualising Care Trajectory Management in Nursing Practice10. Care Trajectory Management in Nursing PracticeAnswers to Quick QuizzesIndicative Answers to Selected Exercises

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.

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• SECTION I What Is Care Trajectory Management and Why Does It Matter?1. Concepts and Making the Invisible, Visible2. Care Trajectories and Care Trajectory Management3. The Complexities of Healthcare Work4. Approaches to Organising Healthcare5. Care Trajectory Management and Healthcare Quality and Safety6. Care Trajectory Management and Professional IdentitySECTION II The Theory and Practice of Care Trajectory Management7. Conceptualising Healthcare Organisation for Care Trajectory Management8. Conceptualising Healthcare Work for Care Trajectory Management9. Conceptualising Care Trajectory Management in Nursing Practice10. Care Trajectory Management in Nursing PracticeAnswers to Quick QuizzesIndicative Answers to Selected Exercises