Awareness in Clinical Supervision

Running head: AWARENESS IN CLINICAL SUPERVISION
AWARENESS IN CLINICAL SUPERVISION
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AWARENESS IN CLINICAL SUPERVISION1
Introduction and Background
Clinical Supervision is one of the important part of the learning practice. It includes
various aspects of the health streams and disciplines, these include psychotherapy,
therapeutic counselling and other factors related to the therapeutic efficacy of the people.
The clinical supervision, furthermore, has a multidisciplinary approach that could lead to the
faster treatment of the patient. The clinical supervision is a way to provide respect, give
reflection as well as give an emotional support to the patient. However, clinical supervision is
different from the inspection which is more involved in the documentation, whereas in case
of the clinical supervision is involved in patient consent, monitoring as well as improving the
performance, as well as patient- nurse relationship. In the following essay, there will be
critical appraisal of six articles which will be in relation to application and importance of
clinical supervision in the current domain of nursing practice.
Content
According to Pront, Gillham and Schuwirth (2016), the clinical supervision along with the
reflective practice groups which involved nurses and midwives, reported positive impacts on
the clinical practice as well as resilience as well as self-awareness. Therefore, in the current
scenario of nursing practice it is important to acknowledge the fact that reflection of values
along with better therapeutic use of self can give better recovery not only in the physical level
but also on the physical level of practice. Reflective thinking and feedback system could
improve the team work and also lead to multidisciplinary approach towards the clinical
practice. In the local context the importance of understanding and trust between the patients
is an important part of clinical supervision which has been covered thoroughly in this
assignment.
Critical Appraisal of the Article

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Dudek, N.L., Dojeiji, S., Day, K. and Varpio, L., 2016. Feedback to supervisors: is
anonymity really so important?. Academic Medicine, 91(9), pp.1305-1312.
In this article, the authors have defined clearly the impact of feedback system to the
supervisor, as well as it has mentioned about whether the anonymous or non-anonymous
feedback system has benefited physicians or not. The paper, further, suggests that non-
anonymous live out to the positive relationship when it comes to resident-to-faculty feedback.
The article was easy to read and understand the impact of feedback system.
The limitation/disadvantage of this paper was that, the findings and the open feedback
system could be manipulative as well as speculative, which can have an influential effect
from others.
In terms of nursing practice it could be the fact that open feedback system can give timely
feedback when it comes to nursing which would improve the educational experiences. The
feedback system could improve the implementation of services as well make the nursing
practices better and efficient in terms of practice as well as clinical supervision. It will enable
to make effective as well as efficient decision making as well as consulting for the nurses, by
seeking multidisciplinary approach.
The feedback system can also influence the effect of awareness when it comes to the clinical
supervision. According to Kristofferzon et al. (2013), the clinical supervision and nursing, I
will enable the nursing students to measure the supervision effort provided by the facilitators
and also facilitate the overall learning experience for the nursing students.
Knutton, S. and Pover, J., 2004. The importance of honesty in clinical supervision. Part
2: the skill of challenging: in the second of two articles, Sue Knutton and Jane Pover
explore the interdependence of honesty and challenge in clinical supervision. Nursing
Management (Harrow), 10(10), pp.23-27.