This could help tapping the full potential of WBA―to prompt learning by means of supervision, feedback and reflection [ 59].
Little is known about the value of clinical supervision, peer support and reflection on practice for staff groups where supporting people with dementia at the end of life is increasingly becoming part of their routine work.
While the literature offers many opinions on the importance of supervision, there is limited evidence and reflection on what actually happens on the ground.
While medical schools' efforts to foster humanism and/or cultural competence are diverse and not much evaluated, three elements seem to be essential in training related to poverty: high involvement of a mentor as role model, experiential learning with supportive supervision, and time for critical reflection and discussion about the learning experience [ 13- 15].
7 In the authors' opinion, these could include increased senior supervision of the admitting process including formative feedback and reflection, as well as a local cultural change enabling HSs to initially assess patients while senior staff provide supervision and guidance.
Important in early patient encounters, Ottenheijm and colleagues argue, is continuous supervision, reflection between student and supervisor, and timely feedback.
Research that seeks to understand the meta-cognitive process of reflection-on-action (clinical supervision), and how, in turn, supervision improves the therapist's capacity for reflection-in-action (therapy) must utilize methods that capture the complexity of these processes.
For instance, Kim et al. [ 17] showed that supportive supervision reinforces prompt reflection and learning, helping novice health personnel to improve their interpersonal communication skills (Kim et al., 2002).
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Refraction and reflection.
