title: The policy and the practice: early-career doctors and nurses as leaders and followers in the delivery of health care.
abstract: There are increasing calls, from a range of stakeholders in the health sector, for healthcare professionals to work more collaboratively to provide health care. In response, education institutions are adopting an interprofessional education agenda in an attempt to provide health professionals ready to meet such calls. This article considers the nature of and interaction between professional and personal identity, power relations and leadership and followership in relation to the work practices of junior doctors and novice nurses and suggests ways in which understandings from these considerations might influence the educational preparation of students for these professions.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand. m.barrow@auckland.ac.nz
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Barrow
authors.forename: Judy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: McKimm
authors.forename: Sue
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gasquoine
mesh_terms: D002322:Career Mobility; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003625:Data Collection; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D007857:Leadership; D008611:Mentors; D009520:New Zealand; D009726:Nurses; D016134:Organizational Policy; D010820:Physicians; D011209:Power, Psychological; D024382:Professional Role; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012933:Social Identification; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013997:Time Factors