The second methodology guiding the study, phenomenology [ 33], is particularly suitable for the study of supervision processes because of its emphasis on the experience of participants.
Research assistants were trained to ensure the maximum confidentiality of the information gathered from participants, and this was further enforced by a rigorous supervision process conducted by members of the academic investigator team.
The study addresses past gaps in the research literature given that few studies have examined the supervision process from the perspective of highly experienced or expert supervisors, or from the supervisor-supervisee dyadic perspective, and very few studies have used recorded supervision sessions as a source of data, instead relying on retrospective report of events [ 23].
Rather than note the failures of member states to stay below the 3percentt of GDP deficit ceiling, we focus on the quality of the supervision process.
A review of the literature did not reveal any scientifically tested questionnaire for evaluating nursing students' expectations of the supervision process when writing a bachelor thesis.
Participants displayed varying attitudes to the nature and purpose of the supervision process.
(Nursing Officer, 461) This research revealed divergent attitudes regarding the nature and purpose of the supervision process in the two countries studied.
Finally, while we believe the effect to be minimal since sites were not informed of the study team ahead of time, there could be some Hawthorne effect on the rigor of the supervision process.
They have to be trained, on job training…they need to be further reoriented to handle the basic emergency obstetric care…" (DHO, 121) In some districts where this was an issue, or where health worker cadres with EmOC skills were in short supply, this training was seen as part of the supervision process.
To evaluate the LQAS tool, random sampling of 76 records was done in parallel to the standard supervision process, where complete review and comparisons of treatment cards to registers was performed by the ART supervisors.
