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This 7 page paper looks at the concept of supervision in the healthcare environment and discusses what it is, how it is undertaken and the role in terms of compliance and the potential for learning and teaching opportunities. The bibliography cites 11 sources.
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can be variant, from a focus in the need to enforce compliance to a model where there is a broader approach and supervision can be seen as a model that
incorporates learning potential and development as well as compliance. In the medical profession and healthcare industries there are many human elements that need to be considered, not only in the
delivery of the service to the patients or clients, but in the way development needs to take place with ongoing changes occurring in as changes to practice, knowledge and legislation
take place. In this context supervision may be seen differently than in other types of organization, such as manufacturing. Catherine and David Sawdon1 refer to supervision in this context being
a partnership. In order to assess the way it takes place the definition of supervision and way it can take place may be examined to assess the different elements that
are present and to consider how it is used, and to what degree this is a partnership and to what degree it is there to ensure compliance.
In looking for a definition of clinical supervision then we can look to those who have worked in the field to define what is meant.
The idea of nursing supervision is to provide support for nurse practitioner in a range of issues, developing their own identity as well as skills and competences (Severinsson, 2001). Pettes
(1979) describes clinical supervision, that is supervision that takes place in a healthcare environment, as "a process by which one practitioner enables another practitioner, who is accountable to him or
her, to practice to the best of their ability". This is working together in terms of the supervisory relationship between the supervisor and supervisee, where there is a transfer of
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