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Robertson K, Ju M, O'Brien BC, van Schaik SM, Bochatay N. Exploring the role of power during debriefing of interprofessional simulations. J Interprof Care 2022:1-9. [PMID: 35109751 DOI: 10.1080/13561820.2022.2029371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2020] [Revised: 12/09/2021] [Accepted: 01/11/2022] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Interprofessional simulation aims to improve teamwork and patient care by bringing participants from multiple professions together to practice simulated patient care scenarios. Yet, power dynamics may influence interprofessional learning during simulation, which typically occurs during the debriefing. This issue has received limited attention to date but may explain why communication breakdowns and conflicts among healthcare teams persist despite widespread adoption of interprofessional simulation. This study explores the role of power during interprofessional simulation debriefings. We collected data through observations of seven interprofessional simulation sessions and debriefings, four focus groups with simulation participants, and four interviews with simulation facilitators. We identified ways in which power dynamics influenced discussions during debriefing and sometimes limited participants' willingness to share feedback and speak up. We also found that issues related to power that arose during interprofessional simulations often went unacknowledged during the debriefing, leaving healthcare professionals unprepared to navigate power discrepancies with other members of healthcare teams in practice. Given that the goal of interprofessional simulation is to allow professionals to learn together about each other, explicitly addressing power in debriefing after interprofessional simulation may enhance learning.
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- Kathryn Robertson
- Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Kaiser Permanente, Santa Clara, CA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Caronia L, Saglietti M, Chieregato A. Challenging the interprofessional epistemic boundaries: The practices of informing in nurse-physician interaction. Soc Sci Med 2019; 246:112732. [PMID: 31884237 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2019] [Revised: 12/10/2019] [Accepted: 12/12/2019] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Interprofessional management of knowledge in health care settings appears to be particularly vital for the ways in which information circulates, medical decisions are taken, and nursing practices are implemented. Drawing on an extensive ethnographic fieldwork in an Italian Intensive Care Unit, this article investigates how the nurses orient to and concurrently challenge the nurse-physician epistemic boundaries by the different ways through which they perform "informing", and make it work as a diagnostic-relevant activity. Adopting an ethnographic-nurtured discursive approach to a dataset of video-recorded morning briefings, we analyze the nurses' informing contributions in terms of sequential position, turn-taking and turn design. We identify five practices of informing and show how they display different degrees of agency and differently impact on the team's "infectious diseases diagnostic reasoning". This article contributes to nurse-physician interaction studies by showing how the epistemic imbalance at play is interactionally accomplished by participants one interaction at a time. Particularly, the analysis demonstrates that the nurses actively contribute to the teamwork by a skillful management of knowledge that precedes the exercise of the physicians' epistemic and deontic rights implied in diagnosing and planning. Our findings illustrate how the nurses: a) exert their interactional agency without crossing the institutionally sanctioned epistemic and deontic boundaries to which they are observably oriented to; b) cautiously challenge the epistemic imbalance at play in nurse-physician interaction and c) actively contribute in setting the premises of the team's collective decisions. Conclusion and practical implications are proposed.
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Johannessen LE. Workplace assimilation and professional jurisdiction: How nurses learn to blur the nursing-medical boundary. Soc Sci Med 2018; 201:51-58. [DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2017] [Revised: 02/01/2018] [Accepted: 02/05/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Bochatay N, Muller-Juge V, Scherer F, Cottin G, Cullati S, Blondon KS, Hudelson P, Maître F, Vu NV, Savoldelli GL, Nendaz MR. Are role perceptions of residents and nurses translated into action? BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION 2017; 17:138. [PMID: 28821252 PMCID: PMC5563059 DOI: 10.1186/s12909-017-0976-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2016] [Accepted: 08/07/2017] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND Effective interprofessional collaboration (IPC) has been shown to depend on clear role definitions, yet there are important gaps with regard to role clarity in the IPC literature. The goal of this study was to evaluate whether there was a relationship between internal medicine residents' and nurses' role perceptions and their actual actions in practice, and to identify areas that would benefit from more specific interprofessional education. METHODS Fourteen residents and 14 nurses working in internal medicine were interviewed about their role perceptions, and then randomly paired to manage two simulated clinical cases. The authors adopted a general inductive approach to analyze the interviews. They identified 13 different role components that were then compared to data from simulations. Descriptive and kappa statistics were used to assess whether there was a relationship between role components identified in interviews and those performed in simulations. Results from these analyses guided a further qualitative evaluation of the relationship between role perceptions and actions. RESULTS Across all 13 role components, there was an overall statistically significant, although modest, relationship between role perceptions and actions. In spite of this relationship, discrepancies were observed between role components mentioned in interviews and actions performed in simulations. Some were more frequently performed than mentioned (e.g. "Having common goals") while others were mentioned but performed only weakly (e.g. "Providing feedback"). CONCLUSIONS Role components for which perceptions do not match actions point to role ambiguities that need to be addressed in interprofessional education. These results suggest that educators need to raise residents' and nurses' awareness of the flexibility required to work in the clinical setting with regard to role boundaries.
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- Naïke Bochatay
- Unit of Development and Research in Medical Education (UDREM), Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Rue Michel Servet 1, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Unit of Development and Research in Medical Education (UDREM), Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Rue Michel Servet 1, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Quality of Care Service, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Community Medicine, Primary Care and Emergency Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Unit of Development and Research in Medical Education (UDREM), Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Rue Michel Servet 1, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
- Division of Anesthesiology, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Unit of Development and Research in Medical Education (UDREM), Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Rue Michel Servet 1, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
- Division of General Internal Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
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Conn LG, Haas B, Cuthbertson BH, Amaral AC, Coburn N, Nathens AB. Communication and Culture in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit: Boundary Production and the Improvement of Patient Care. QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH 2016; 26:895-906. [PMID: 26481945 DOI: 10.1177/1049732315609901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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This ethnography explores communication around critically ill surgical patients in three surgical intensive care units (ICUs) in Canada. A boundary framework is used to articulate how surgeons', intensivists', and nurses' communication practices shape and are shaped by their respective disciplinary perspectives and experiences. Through 50 hours of observations and 43 interviews, these health care providers are found to engage in seven communication behaviors that either mitigate or magnify three contested symbolic boundaries: expertise, patient ownership, and decisional authority. Where these boundaries are successfully mitigated, experiences of collaborative, high-quality patient care are produced; by contrast, boundary magnification produces conflict and perceptions of unsafe patient care. Findings reveal that high quality and safe patient care are produced through complex social and cultural interactions among surgeons, intensivists, and nurses that are also expressions of knowledge and power. This enhances our understanding of why current quality improvement efforts targeting communication may be ineffective.
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- Lesley Gotlib Conn
- Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
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- Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
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- Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
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- Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Department of Surgery, Division of General Surgery, University of Toronto, Canada
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- Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Department of Surgery, Division of General Surgery, University of Toronto, Canada
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW To determine the conditions under which ethnographic research is a useful tool for reflexive self-learning and enhanced performance in critical care units. RECENT FINDINGS The focus of studies using qualitative methods to investigate the organization of work in critical care units largely remains the investigation of the stresses and strains for staff, patients, and families managing communication at the end of life. A more recent focus of research has been on safety and quality improvement. Iterative feedback between researchers and clinicians is likely a useful tool for self-reflexive learning and change. SUMMARY Qualitative researchers have long been involved in the study of critical care. There is a new emphasis on using ethnographic methods as a tool for behavioural change through the process of iterative feedback.
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Paradis E, Leslie M, Gropper MA, Aboumatar HJ, Kitto S, Reeves S. Interprofessional care in intensive care settings and the factors that impact it: results from a scoping review of ethnographic studies. J Crit Care 2013; 28:1062-7. [PMID: 23890936 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2013.05.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2012] [Revised: 05/22/2013] [Accepted: 05/27/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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At the heart of safe cultures are effective interactions within and between interprofessional teams. Critical care clinicians see severely ill patients who require coordinated interprofessional care. In this scoping review, we asked: "What do we know about processes, relationships, organizational and contextual factors that shape the ability of clinicians to deliver interprofessional care in adult ICUs?" Using the 5-stage process established by Levac et al. (2010), we reviewed 981 abstracts to identify ethnographic articles that shed light on interprofessional care in the intensive care unit. The quality of selected articles is assessed using best practices in ethnographic research; their main insights evaluated in light of an interprofessional framework developed by Reeves et al (Interprofessional Teamwork for Health and Social Care. San Francisco, CA: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010). Overall, studies were of mixed quality, with an average (SD) score of 5.8 out of 10 (1.77). Insights into intensive care unit cultures include the importance of paying attention to workflow, the nefarious impact of hierarchical relationships, the mixed responses to protocols imposed from the top down, and a general undertheorization of sex and race. This review highlights several lessons for safe cultures and argues that more needs to be known about the context of critical care if quality and safety interventions are to succeed.
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- Elise Paradis
- Center for Innovation in Interprofessional Education, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Håland E. Introducing the electronic patient record (EPR) in a hospital setting: boundary work and shifting constructions of professional identities. SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS 2012; 34:761-775. [PMID: 22026431 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2011.01413.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Today's healthcare sector is being transformed by several ongoing processes, among them the introduction of new technologies, new financial models and new ways of organising work. The introduction of the electronic patient record (EPR) is representative and part of these extensive changes. Based on interviews with health personnel and office staff in a regional hospital in Norway, and with health administrators and information technology service-centre staff in the region, the article examines how the introduction of the EPR, as experienced by the participants, affects the work practices and boundaries between various professional groups in the healthcare system and discusses the implications this has for the understanding of medical practice. The article shows how the EPR has become part of the professionals' boundary work; expressing shifting constructions of professional identities.
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- Erna Håland
- Department of Adult Learning and Counselling, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
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This article analyses nursing expertise with a particular focus at the level of clinical and organizational practice. Through an examination of a specialist team of hospital nurses, and drawing on the concept of a community of practice, the article provides a critique of discussions of nursing expertise which can be overly normative, individualistic or divorced from practice. The theoretical background to our analysis is the division of labour in health care; the case study on which this analysis is based is a particular health policy: the introduction of critical care outreach services. The empirical portions of the article are based on a qualitative study of eight such services in England. In the first part of the analysis we elaborate on three ways in which 'expertise' can be deployed in practice: teaching and training; consultancy and advice; and practical clinical action. Each of these is shown to be related to the development of a community of practice. In the second part of the analysis we examine in more detail the impact of outreach nurses on the division of labour in health care and on traditional occupational hierarchies. A general implication of our findings is that expertise has fundamentally social characteristics which need to be acknowledged in academic and policy discourse.
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- Simon Carmel
- School of Health and Human Sciences, University of Essex, UK.
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Crooks VA, Castleden H, Hanlon N, Schuurman N. 'Heated political dynamics exist ...': examining the politics of palliative care in rural British Columbia, Canada. Palliat Med 2011; 25:26-35. [PMID: 20696737 DOI: 10.1177/0269216310378784] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Palliative care is delivered by a number of professional groups and informal providers across a range of settings. This arrangement works well in that it maximizes avenues for providing care, but may also bring about complicated 'politics' due to struggles over control and decision-making power. Thirty-one interviews conducted with formal and informal palliative care providers in a rural region of British Columbia, Canada, are drawn upon as a case study. Three types of politics impacting on palliative care provision are identified: inter-community, inter-site, and inter-professional. Three themes crosscut these politics: ownership, entitlement, and administration. The politics revealed by the interviews, and heretofore underexplored in the palliative literature, have implications for the delivery of palliative care. For example, the outcomes of the politics simultaneously facilitate (e.g. by promoting advocacy for local services) and serve as a barrier to (e.g. by privileging certain communities/care sites/provider) palliative care provision.
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Overcoming gendered and professional hierarchies in order to facilitate escalation of care in emergency situations: The role of standardised communication protocols. Soc Sci Med 2010; 71:1683-6. [DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.07.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2010] [Revised: 07/21/2010] [Accepted: 07/26/2010] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Hamilton B, Manias E. The power of routine and special observations: producing civility in a public acute psychiatric unit. Nurs Inq 2008; 15:178-88. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2008.00406.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Hamilton BE, Manias E. Rethinking nurses’ observations: Psychiatric nursing skills and invisibility in an acute inpatient setting. Soc Sci Med 2007; 65:331-43. [DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.03.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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