Unfolding Practices: A Sociomaterial View of Interprofessional Collaboration in Health Care

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  • Annika Lindh Falk Linköping University
  • Nick Hopwood University of Stellenbosch, South Africa/University of Technology Sydney
  • Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren Linköping University

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https://doi.org/10.7577/pp.1699

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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Published

2016-12-19

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Lindh Falk, A., Hopwood, N., & Abrandt Dahlgren, M. (2016). Unfolding Practices: A Sociomaterial View of Interprofessional Collaboration in Health Care. Professions and Professionalism, 7(2), e1699. https://doi.org/10.7577/pp.1699

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