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Instruments for Evaluating Clinical Supervision

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Clinical Supervision in Practice

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Despite the clear importance attached to clinical supervision across all professional groups, the actual process of supervision remains surprisingly poorly evaluated. Nursing is no exception to this rule. In this chapter, I stress the need to develop measures to evaluate supervision that are based on the principles of reliability, validity and utility. Five scales that have been used in the Clinical Supervision Evaluation Project are described in detail: the general health questionnaire (GHQ-28), the Maslach burnout inventory, the Minnesota job satisfaction scale, the Cooper coping skills scale and the nurse stress index. In addition to the use of quantitative methods, qualitative approaches also have an important role to play, especially in illustrating the ‘lived experience’ of supervision. As so little research has been conducted to date, much evaluative work remains to be done. One priority is the need to develop a questionnaire measure of the supervision process. Researchers also need to demonstrate how the provision of clinical supervision for staff can lead to improved patient outcomes.

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  1. NT Research, UK

    Veronica Bishop SRN, FRSA, MPhil, PhD (Editor, visiting professor, Health Care Consultant) (Editor, visiting professor, Health Care Consultant)

  2. Anglia Polytechnic University, UK

    Veronica Bishop SRN, FRSA, MPhil, PhD (Editor, visiting professor, Health Care Consultant) (Editor, visiting professor, Health Care Consultant)

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Carson, J. (1998). Instruments for Evaluating Clinical Supervision. In: Bishop, V. (eds) Clinical Supervision in Practice. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14527-0_8

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