Interprofessional socialisation in healthcare : a POSH approach

![CDATA[Positive organisational scholarship in healthcare (POSH) seeks to uncover excellence and flourishing in healthcare contexts for capacity building. However, positive approaches such as POSH and appreciative inquiry (AI) have been critiqued as potentially limited in their sensitivity to complex inequities. Critical appreciative inquiry (CAI) approaches, involving the application of a hyper‐analytic lens to AI, seek to redress this limitation. CAI, however, is potentially limited in its capacity to prioritise embodied ways of communicating involving affect and emotion. To redress this limitation, an affective approach to CAI (ACAI) is proposed and piloted with divergent datasets regarding interprofessional socialisation – a topic of increasing importance in healthcare. Findings from this study suggest ACAI can offer three key benefits. First, it has the capacity to examine the phenomenon as it emerges, rather than relying on recall. Second, by advancing both theoretical and methodological debates on interprofessional socialisation, it may reveal opportunities to improve and sustain it within the context of healthcare. Third, it recognises and accommodates the messiness of interprofessional socialisation.]]