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Clinical supervision remains one of the most misunderstood practices in modern nursing. It provides a nurturing and supportive service for nurses, helping them to reflect critically on their actions in the provision of patient care. The aim of this article is to explore and examine the current role and status of clinical supervision in the NHS.

PURPOSE This reflective paper offers a conceptual framework of clinical supervision that assists supervisors to create supportive relationships necessary for advanced practice development. CONCLUSIONS Combining established concepts of clinical supervision with systems psychodynamics enhances the supervisory experience. It is useful to supervisors to understand role transition as it sensitizes...

Structured supervision techniques encourage service providers to increase their knowledge, skills, and selfawareness in providing multicultural services. Structured techniques are described and illustrated.

Background Clinical supervisors are responsible for managing many facets of clinical learning and face a range of challenges when the need for "difficult" conversations arises, including the need to manage conflict and relationships. Methods Spotlight on Conversations Workshop was developed to improve the capacity of clinical supervisors to engage in difficult conversations. They were designe...

We used a rigorous case study methodology to examine one supervisory dyad's work together during one semester. We used the "best-worst" strategy of several recent researchers, multiple sources of qualitative and quantitative process data, and the perspectives both of the participants and of observers. A number of findings provide hypotheses to guide future research. For example. Session 2 was i...

Clinical supervision is the least investigated, discussed and developed aspect of clinical education (Kilminster & Jolly, 2000) despite being essential within initial professional training and mandated by governments. Even the basic concepts lack precision (Martin, Kumar, & Lizarondo, 2017; Milne, 2007; White, 2017). A popular form of supervision is peer supervision, especially peer group super...

The recent publication of core competencies in suicide risk assessment and management (Suicide Prevention Resource Center, 2006) and the American Psychiatric Association’s (2003) practice guidelines have raised concerns about how best to address these issues in clinical supervision of trainees. This article reviews the identified core competencies, addresses implications for supervision of trai...

The growth of the evidence based practice (EBP) movement has created a need for efficient models of EBP training that provide timely feedback to trainees. This feasibility trial examined a technological approach to clinical supervision called bug-in-the-eye (BITE) among trainees learning Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Eight DBT trainees within a psychiatry residency program were randomized...

BACKGROUND Clinical placement is an essential component of training in health sciences because it is where theory and practice interface. OBJECTIVE To explore experiences of health sciences students during clinical placement in terms of supervision, challenges and coping strategies. DESIGN It was a cross sectional survey. SETTING University ofZimbabwe, College of Health Sciences. PARTIC...