Essen, C, Freshwater, D and Cahill, J (2015) Towards an understanding of the dynamic sociomaterial embodiment of interprofessional collaboration. Nursing Inquiry, 22 (3). pp. 210-220. ISSN 1320-7881
Abstract
Many notions of interprofessional collaboration appear to aim for the ideal of trouble-free co-operative communication between healthcare professionals. This study challenges such an ideal as too far removed from the complex and contested relations of power that characterise the albeit skilful everyday social interactions which take place within healthcare practice, along with the associated pragmatic compromises made by disempowered practitioners. It is noted that these may be facilitated by modes of comforting myth and denial. To underline this point, psychiatric illness diagnosis is used as an illustrative example of how a historically powerful societal discourse can become thoroughly entrenched. The influence of a paradigmatically dominant discourse is shown to extend beyond the repetition of narrative within open dialogue and debate and to continue as tacitly reflected patterns within unconsciously habituated behaviour and durable artefacts that crystallise future affordances and limitations on action. However, the authors conclude by introducing optimistic theoretical speculation around the dynamic social mechanics of reflexive awareness and creativity, as these emerge within moments of significant dissonance between dialectically interacting layers of individually internalised and contextually embedded discourse, conversation and direct experience
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Essen, C, Freshwater, D and Cahill, J (2015) Towards an understanding of the dynamic sociomaterial embodiment of interprofessional collaboration. Nursing Inquiry, 22 (3). pp. 210-220, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nin.12093. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving |
Keywords: | boundaries; discourse; habitus; human relations; interprofessional collaboration; mental health; new materialisms; organisational change; power; reflexivity; social cognition; social construction |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Healthcare (Leeds) > Nursing Mental Health (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 04 Mar 2016 12:39 |
Last Modified: | 12 Apr 2017 11:35 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nin.12093 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/nin.12093 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:93638 |