BACKGROUND Uganda introduced a multipronged intervention, the supervision, performance assessment, and recognition strategy (SPARS), to improve medicines management (MM) in public and not-for-profit health facilities. This paper, the first in a series, describes the SPARS intervention and reports on the MM situation in Uganda before SPARS (baseline). METHODS To build MM capacity at health fac...

OBJECTIVE This study compared boys' with girls' hazard-directed behaviors at home when the mother was present and absent from the room. METHODS Videos were coded for how children reacted to a contrived burn hazard ('Gadget'), maternal verbalizations to children about the hazard, and children's compliance with directives to avoid the hazard. Children's behavioral attributes (risk-taking tenden...

PURPOSE Supervision is typically mandatory for therapists in training and plays an important role in their professional development. A number of qualitative studies have considered specific aspects of supervision. This systematic review aimed to synthesize these studies' findings and explore the experience and impact of supervision for trainee therapists. METHODS A systematic search of the li...

This paper consists of a review of mostly nursing literature with the purpose of developing a conceptual framework for understanding the process of clinical supervision and the nature of the supervisory relationship utilizing a psychodynamic perspective. The paper explores the experiences of nurses and health visitors during clinical supervision in order to illustrate how the dynamics of clinic...

AIM To investigate the nature of clinical supervision. METHOD Within the four-cycle action research approach qualitative data was collected using a range of methods and analyses. RESULTS Several insights were gained into the nature of clinical supervision and the nature of change required to support its introduction. One such insight, was the importance of relationship development. CONCLU...