Clinical Supervision for Palliative Care Book

Clinical supervision has been researched, promoted, and proven as a very effective strategy for constantly developing skills, for maintaining and raising standards, for encouraging personal and professional developement, and for building team ethos. This book explores clinical supervision and the qualities, skills, models and ethics needed to ensure success. Palliative care is arguably the most stressful area of nursing and care work, as well as being one of the most rewarding. It is work that requires a high level of practical skill, which can help the dying person to feel more comfortable and confident. But practical skills, valuable though they are, are not enough. Palliative care demands from its practitioners an equally high level of compassion and resilience. Offering this combination of practical comfort and deeply felt concerned support is hugely demanding. This book is an attempt to suggest a strategy for professional help which will also enhance patient and client care. Clinical Supervision for Palliative Care has been written as a workbook. You will find pauses for reflection and lots of questions to consider and answer. Good Palliative Care is based on good communication - so you are asked to interact with the text. The book was researched with a range of professionals working in the field, and with some of those receiving their care. This book will encourage implementation of Clinical Supervision across the widening field of Palliative Care - not only because it will support and sustain practitioners, who are not always good at looking after themselves, but because it will also fulfil the ultimate goal of all of us - the best possible care of dying people, helping them to the death that they want, and easing their suffering and that of those closest to them. Jean Bayliss is a Consultant and Tainer in Counselling, Education and Guidancevision.