Developing a Manual for Strengthening Mental Health Nurses’ Clinical Supervision

Abstract

In this article, we report findings from a study aimed at developing the content and implementation of a manual for a research-based intervention on clinical supervision of mental health nursing staff. The intervention was designed to strengthen already existing supervision practices through educational preparation for supervision and systematic reflection on supervision. The intervention consists of three sessions and was implemented on two groups of mental health hospital staff. We present an outline of the manual and explain how the trial sessions made us adjust the preliminary manual. The effects of implementing the manual will subsequently be analysed in an independent randomised controlled trial.

A systematic review of evidence relating to clinical supervision for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals

“…Three studies provided supervisors with a written manual, or handbook, detailing the role and functions of clinical supervision (Brunero & Lamont , Buus et al . , Gonge & Buus ).…”

“…), models of ‘Hawkins and Shohet’ (Buus et al . ) and ‘Bandura's social cognitive learning’ model (Heaven et al . ).…”

“…Other people involved in facilitating clinical supervision were researchers (Buus et al . , Gonge & Buus ) and line managers (Turner & Hill ). In one study clinical supervision was delivered jointly by two co‐facilitators (Brunero & Lamont ).…”

“…, White & Winstanley , Buus et al . , Gonge & Buus ) or to supervisees who were involved in the delivery of counselling services (Livni et al . , Bailey et al .…”

Is it possible to strengthen psychiatric nursing staff's clinical supervision? RCT of a meta‐supervision intervention

“…Moreover, they vary as to whether they are implemented as standardized supervision interventions on clinical nursing staff or standardized educational interventions on the supervisors' practices (Buus et al . ).…”