Maintaining Professional Distance

Maintaining professional distance.

L of seeing patients, I ran into my first patient on a downtown street. The probability of this “chance” meeting would have been strikingly lower in New York City or Washington, D.C. When a colleague or co-worker develops a medical problem, the options for acquiring a caregiver are often dramatically greater in a large city than they are in a small town. More often in a small town, the patient ...

Maintaining professional resilience through group restorative supervision.

Restorative clinical supervision has been delivered to over 2,500 professionals and has shown to be highly effective in reducing burnout, stress and increasing compassion satisfaction. Demand for the programme has shown that a sustainable model of implementation is needed for organisations who may not be able to invest in continued individual sessions. Following the initial six sessions, group ...

Continuing education and maintaining professional competence.

The credentials of new graduates in occupational therapy are determined by the degrees earned, the completion of fieldwork education, and the result of a national certification examination. Professional competence beyond graduation or after entry into the field is not formally or routinely assessed. Maintaining professional competence is a continual process, which combines cognitive knowledge, ...

Maintaining Professional Competence : Approaches to Career

Maintaining Professional Competence in Innovation Organizations

Public organizations concerned with planning and implementation of developmental activity, education, research and development, as well as private firms delivering professional services and operating in a rapidly changing socio-economic environment are often concerned mainly with innovation, problem solving and learning rather than with the production of any tangible outputs. The income streams...