The importance of supervision is largely taken for granted within social work. Yet it can often seem as if policy-based descriptions what ‘should be’ are disconnected from the realities practice. In this study, we sought to understand perspectives workers and supervisors about for. Interviews were undertaken with (n = 56) 10) in one authority England between September 2018 March 2019. We identi...

AIM Occupational therapists frequently undertake the role of practice educator contributing to the development of the future workforce, however, little is known about how they effectively perform this role. This study aimed to elucidate students' perspectives on what makes an excellent practice educator. METHOD Documentation for 124 Practice Excellence Commendations nominations by Queensland ...

Emotional development is oneof the stages of that will affectc hildren'sinteractions with other people. Children learn to controltheir emotions whentheyare in arelationship withtheirparents, friends, and theirenvironment. The useof gadgetscanhavevariousimpacts on children, includingchildren's emotions. Thisstudyaims todetermine emotional developmentofchildrenwhouse gadgets. This research anobse...

Staff at 11 rural hospitals in an under-resourced region of Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, participated in an intervention to improve the quality of care of severely malnourished children through training and support aimed at implementing the WHO case-management guidelines. Despite similar intervention inputs, some hospitals reduced their case-fatality rates by at least half, whereas othe...

BACKGROUND Pakistan's Lady Health Worker Programme aims to provide care to children sick with pneumonia and diarrhoea, which continues to cause 27 % under-five mortality in Pakistan. The quality of supervision received by Lady Health Workers (LHWs) in the programme influence their knowledge and skills, in turn impacting their ability to provide care. METHODS This study is part of an implement...