Evidence-Based Standards

”. . . the generative power of procedural standards thrives on the local expertise the nurses and doctors develop in their interaction with these tools – and vice versa. Standardization does not result in an obedient workforce, with individual health care workers accomplishing their tasks in a rigid, preprogrammed fashion. Quite the contrary, affording skillful and non-predetermined interactions with the procedural standards enhances their generative power. A proper (both effective and desirable) deployment of procedural standards creates a synergy between the staff members’ embodied expertise and the tool’s coordinating activity, in which expertise and coordination mutually reinforce each other (Timmermans & Berg, 78).