Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: This article presents a meta-disciplinary and institutional framework of practices used by nurses and doctors to manage the indeterminacy of knowing in emergency departments (EDs) in Australia. We draw on Schatzkian perspectives of how practices prevail and reflect particular site ontologies. We posit that nurses and doctors draw on a repertoire of practices to finesse their knowing at patients’ bedsides: they practise knowing. Drawing on existing practice knowledges (old learnings) they tailor them in the ED (new workplace learnings). This suggests that learning (practices) in the ED is teleological and emergent. This alerts us to new ways of thinking about attachments to practice knowledges, or ‘the teleological–affective structuring’ of practices (Schatzki, 2006 Schatzki, T. R. (2006). On organizations as they happen. Organization Studies, 27, 1863–1873.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], Organization Studies, 27, 1864), and its implications for organizational learning.
Authors: Marie Manidis, Hermine Scheeres
Institution: University of Technology Sydney
Language: English
Subfield: Human Factors and Ergonomics
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1964568526