Challenging the belief in simple solutions: The need for epistemic practices in professional work.

Medical Education
Monika Nerland, Mervi Hasu

Abstract

As a contribution to the State of the Science issue on 'The problem with solutions', this paper discusses how technology-mediated and assumedly simple and straightforward solutions to professional problems in fact require extensive work from professionals in order that generalised tools and procedures can be made sense of, adapted and employed in local practice. The authors introduce a perspective on epistemic practices in professional work and learning in order to conceptualise and discuss the diversity of the knowledge-related actions required to perform professional services. They discuss how the growing numbers and diversity of knowledge-generating actors who aspire to inform professional practice create 'multi-charged' work settings, imbued with multiple objectives and purposes. This development presents new epistemic challenges to professionals, which require extended capacities for knowledge work. The authors give examples from empirical studies conducted in Nordic health care settings, which relate to nurses' engagement with repositories of clinical procedures and to the development of new medical technologies for clinical use. They show how work performance in both cases depends on a range of epistemic practices (ie, c...Continue Reading

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