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In striving to improve their understanding and practice of nursing, nurses have recognized the importance of a supervisory relationship which is outside traditional hierarchical roles. The term’ supervisor’ conjures up for nurses ideas of discipline and criticism, and for many of them it is a word with more managerial than clinical connotations. Watts (1987) suggests that
The generally held conception of supervision is of a lower management activity in which a group of workers is overseen by a supervisor for a variety of reasons such as ensuring timekeeping, processing pay entitlements, regulating rates of work, and monitoring the quality of work according to pre-set standards.
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Faugier, J. (1992). The supervisory relationship. In: Butterworth, T., Faugier, J. (eds) Clinical Supervision and Mentorship in Nursing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7228-6_2
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