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Pluralistic Dialogue: A Grounded Theory of Interdisciplinary Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2015

Antoinette M. McCallin
Antoinette M. McCallin*
Affiliation:
Massey University, New Zealand
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School of Health Sciences, Massey University, Private Bag 102904, North Shore MSC, Auckland, New Zealand. Email: AM.McCallin@rnassey.ac.nz
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Abstract

This grounded theory study explains how health professionals work in interdisciplinary teams in health services where the call for new collaborations is intensifying. Forty-four participants from four teams in two major acute-care hospitals participated in the study. In total there were eighty hours of interviewing and eighty hours of participant observation. All data were constantly compared and analysed using Glaser's emergent approach to grounded theory. Underpinning the study are the premises of symbolic interactionism that are assumed to shape the focus of this study, team interactions, and collective action within an acute care setting. The study participants' patterns of behaviour would suggest that, when interdisciplinary practice is well established, an attitude of cooperative inquiry pervades joint actions and interactions that focus on meeting service needs.

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The Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , 1999 , pp. 78 - 85
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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