Are the stars aligned? Healthcare students' conditions for negotiating tasks and competencies during interprofessional clinical placement.

Final-year healthcare students can negotiate who in the team has the competence suited for a specific task. However, they must adapt their negotiations to different communities of practice being enacted at the same time. Educators need to be attentive to this and make an effort to ensure that students benefit from these intersecting communities of practice, both when they align and when they are in conflict.