Delegation and supervision of healthcare assistants’ work in the daily management of uncertainty and the unexpected in clinical practice: invisible learning among newly qualified nurses

摘要: The invisibility of nursing work has been discussed in the international literature but not relation to learning clinical skills. Evans and Guile's (Practice-based education: Perspectives strategies, Rotterdam: Sense, 2012) theory recontextualisation is used explore ways which invisible or unplanned unrecognised takes place as newly qualified nurses learn delegate supervise healthcare assistant. In British context, delegation supervision are thought skills learnt "on job." We suggest that "on-the-job" construction knowledge practice a particularly telling area illustrates learning. Using an ethnographic case study approach three hospital sites England from 2011 2014, we undertook participant observation, interviews with nurses, ward managers assistants. discuss environment present steps encompass embodied, affective social, much cognitive components argue there need for greater understanding "invisible learning" occurs supervise.