Unfolding practices : a sociomaterial view of interprofessional collaboration in health care
Date
2017
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Journal ISSN
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Publisher
Hogskolen i Oslo og Akershus
Abstract
Knowledge sharing is an essential part of interprofessional practice and will be even more important in the future in regard to the opportunities and challenges in practices for delivering safe and effective healthcare. The aim of this ethnographic study was to explore how professional knowledge can be shared in an interprofessional team at a spinal cord injury rehabilitation unit. A sociomaterial perspective on practice was used to analyse the data, and by theorizing upon this, we captured different aspects of interprofessional collaboration in health care. The findings illuminate how knowledge emerges and is shared between professionals, and how it passes along as chain of actions between professionals, in various ways. The findings offer a novel perspective on how interprofessional collaboration as a practice, involving ongoing learning, unfolds. This reveals the mechanisms by which different forms of expertise are mobilized between professions as health care work.
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CITATION: Falk, A. L., Hopwood, N. & Dahlgren, M. A. 2017. Unfolding practices : a sociomaterial view of interprofessional collaboration in health care. Professions and Professionalism, 7(2):1-14, doi:10.7577/pp.1699.
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The original publication is available at https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/pp
Keywords
Ethnography, Interprofessional relations, Health care -- Collaboration
Citation
Falk, A. L., Hopwood, N. & Dahlgren, M. A. 2017. Unfolding practices : a sociomaterial view of interprofessional collaboration in health care. Professions and Professionalism, 7(2):1-14, doi:10.7577/pp.1699