Academy for Innovation in Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Med Educ. 2009 Jul;43(7):680-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2009.03395.x.
The use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for supporting interprofessional communication is becoming increasingly common in health care. However, little research has explored how ICTs affect interprofessional communication, or how novices are trained to be effective interprofessional ICT users. This study explores the interprofessional communication strategies of nurses and doctors (trainees and experts) when their communications were mediated by a specific ICT: an electronic patient record (EPR).
A total of 72 doctors and nurses participated in this 8-month study on a paediatric in-patient ward. Eighty hours of non-participant observations and 20 semi-structured interviews were conducted. All data were rendered anonymous prior to analysis. Using a constructivist grounded theory approach, one researcher read and analysed all data recursively. As emergent themes were identified, exemplary portions of the data were discussed with three additional researchers to resolve discrepancies and confirm the coding structure. Expertise literatures informed the final analyses.
Three interprofessional communication strategies were identified: (i) all participants routinely formulated 'workarounds' to circumvent problematic EPR-mediated communications; (ii) workarounds were classifiable as instances of Abandoning, Forcing or Submitting to the EPR, and (iii) novices learned workaround strategies through an informal curriculum, but they did not learn to manage the interprofessional effects of these workarounds.
Trainees relied on workarounds as simplified routines, demonstrating routine expertise. Staff members, demonstrating adaptive expertise, used workarounds as part of a broader network of people and communication tools. Explicit training regarding this network and the ways in which workarounds conceal this network may help trainees develop adaptive expertise.
在医疗保健中,使用信息和通信技术(ICTs)来支持跨专业交流变得越来越普遍。然而,很少有研究探讨 ICTs 如何影响跨专业交流,或者如何培训新手成为有效的跨专业 ICT 用户。本研究探讨了护士和医生(实习生和专家)在特定 ICT(电子病历)介导其交流时的跨专业交流策略。
共有 72 名医生和护士参与了这项为期 8 个月的儿科住院病房研究。进行了 80 小时的非参与观察和 20 次半结构化访谈。在分析之前,所有数据都被匿名化。使用建构主义扎根理论方法,一名研究人员递归地阅读和分析所有数据。随着出现的主题被确定,数据的示例部分与另外三名研究人员进行了讨论,以解决差异并确认编码结构。专家文献为最终分析提供了信息。
确定了三种跨专业交流策略:(i)所有参与者都例行制定“解决方法”来规避有问题的 EPR 介导的交流;(ii)解决方法可归类为放弃、强制或屈服于 EPR 的实例;(iii)新手通过非正式课程学习解决方法策略,但他们没有学会管理这些解决方法的跨专业影响。
实习生依赖于解决方法作为简化的常规程序,展示了常规的专业知识。员工展示了适应性专业知识,将解决方法用作更广泛的人员和通信工具网络的一部分。关于该网络以及解决方法如何掩盖该网络的明确培训可能有助于实习生发展适应性专业知识。