Critical Analysis of Clinical Supervision in Mental Health Nursing

Mental health nursing
critical analysis of clinical
supervision
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................4
Evaluate role of clinical supervision as strategy designed to support safe and effective mental
health nursing practices. ........................................................................................................4
Current clinical supervision arrangements in workplace and discussion of how these
arrangements could be further improved................................................................................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFERNCES...................................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
Clinical supervision is considered as formal, continuous and systematic procedure related
to professional support as well as learning for conducting practicing nurses. In this procedure,
nurses are assisted for developing the practices doing regular and proper discussion along with
the experiences of colleagues (Copenhaver and Crandell-Williams, 2020). The main aim of
adopting clinical supervision is to promote autonomous decision making, respecting individual's
protection as well as safe care provision by reflective procedure as well as analysing clinical
practices. Organization selected for respective report is Royal Perth Hospital which is located at
the Victoria Square Perth, Western Australia. The respective hospital is established in year 1855
and they have effective medical services. This hospital provide numbers of services such as
treatment of major trauma, tertiary mental health, specialist medical services, surgical services,
elective surgery and many more. Topics include in respective report are role of clinical
supervision for supporting safe and effective mental health nursing practices as well as it also
include current arrangement of provision of clinical supervision at workplace. Report will also
include practices through that arranges can be improve as well as it also include strategies for
development of clinical supervision at workplace.
MAIN BODY
Evaluate role of clinical supervision as strategy designed to support safe and effective mental
health nursing practices.
Clinical supervision is considered as formal provision which is mainly approved by
supervisors of relationship based education as well as training that leads to focused work as well
as it is also used to manage, develop, support and analyse the work of colleagues. Moreover, it
also help company management to ensure that all the work are conducted according to strategies
developed under clinical supervision by the nursing professional as well as management.
Clinical supervision play crucial role and it is significant for providing various benefits to
employees and organization (Fenton and Kidd, 2020). It is essential that clinical supervision is
providing correct and accurate support to organisation in order to effectively perform its role.
The clinical supervision role for developing strategies in order to provide support safe as well as
effective mental health nursing practices. The major role of clinical supervision includes clinical,
supportive and evaluation. It is crucial that supervision is maintaining proper records of practices
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