Marlot Kuiper

203 Developing research routines you simply cannot write down everything, and have to be ‘on the move’ many times, but I developed a routine for making these notes with a quick handwriting. Sometimes it appeared more difficult to write up my notes, for example when a surgeon álso wanted to show me the intervention (“Look, here you can see the great heart artery”). Most of the time, I had some time to make notes after the time-out when the teamwas operating, but regularly, it happened that I had to do this real quick, and work them out in a later break, since I was expected to watch the surgery. As professionals in this domain are used to training novices, it not only felt more natural to watch (and learn) when they were operating, but I must admit, I found it incredibly interesting too. One of the surgeons once joked that I was doing a “a quasi-internship”. I felt privileged to have watched an open-heart surgery, but I had to more carefully organise moments to make notes. Writing up notes when shadowing an anaesthetist was often more easy, as I knew that I would spend time in the coffee room. Developing these routines made me extra aware of the different flow of work routines in the different departments. In that sense, switching roles also became a routine. Over time I knew more smoothly when to be the “quasi-internship student”, when the complete observer, and when to roll out my sleeves. Yes, I did develop routines - or ‘habits’ as they are on an individual level – to conduct the fieldwork, but the same underpinnings for organisational routines seem to count here. These research routines are not static, or mindless, but effortful accomplishments that constantly have to be revised and reflected upon.