When Clinical Practice is Digital: Reflection of Supervision at VITAS Innovative Hospice Care

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  • Martha Rutland

Abstract

VITAS Innovative Hospice Care is a model of distance accountability for clinical practice. Because all hospice staff in VITAS is supervised at a distance, digital communication is an essential part of clinical practice. Distance learning has its limitation, frustrations, and sometimes does not work - but sometimes, by sheer grace and grit, learning happents. Students are "transformed".

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Volume 31 Formation and Supervision in a Digital Age - 2011

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