Role of Clinical Supervision in Supporting Mental Health Nursing Practice

MENTAL HEALTH
PROGRAM

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Critical evaluation of the role of Clinical Supervision in supporting safe and effective mental
health nursing practice.................................................................................................................3
Current Clinical supervision arrangements in the ACSA ...........................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Mental health programmes are launched in order to lighten the heavy burden of mental
illness in the society and to bring improvement in the infrastructure of mental health in the
country (McCarron, Eade and Delmage, 2018). It ensures that sufficient mental heath care
settings are available and accessible for all in improving the mental illness of the people. Also, it
enhances the community involvement and the application of mental health knowledge in all
aspects of development whether physical, biological or social (National Mental Health
programme, 2016).
Clinical supervision plays a major role in achieving the objectives of Mental Health
programmes. It helps in enhancing and maintaining the competencies in the mental health
professionals along with reducing unnecessary interventions to improve mental health (Snowdon
and et.al., 2020).
The report critically evaluates the Clinical supervision as strategy which can be used to support
the safe and effective mental health nursing practices in ACSA (Australian Clinical Supervision
Association Inc.) which is a healthcare system funded publicly in England. It will also the
existing clinical supervision arrangement in ACSA and will discuss the ways in which ACSA
can bring improvement in the same (Tomlinson, 2020).
Critical evaluation of the role of Clinical Supervision in supporting safe and effective mental
health nursing practice
Clinical Supervision is considered to be the most important element which helps in the
development of the mental health nurses along with improving the interpersonal approaches to
facilitate the practices which can improve the mental health (McCarron, Eade and Delmage,
2018). It is an ongoing learning process which supports the clinicians to create, increase,
evaluate and emend the professional functioning (Cutcliffe, Sloan and Bashaw, 2018). The main
role which is played by clinical supervision is to minimize the irrelevant activities and to
maximize the clinicians competencies by quality control and get the best outcomes regarding
the mental health of the patient. It can be given in many ways such as one-on-one, small group,
team-based and also peer-based consultation (Bifarin and Stonehouse, 2017).
The clinicians can be facilitated by supervisions in many forms like via discussing a case,
review of videos or live presentations. It basically trains the nurses using systematic approaches

so that they can attain systematic clinical skills (Stacey and et.al., 2020). The supervisor makes
an effective relationship with the supervisee so that the professional science can be integrated in
the nursing practice and also by considering all the ethics which can improve the mental health
of the patients (Snowdon and et.al., 2020). The process of supervision is a collaborative process
in which both supervisor and supervisee needs to play their roles efficiently. Supervisors are
clinically competent in the areas in which they supervise the nurses (Setiawan and et.al., 2019).
The nurses and the health professionals show the impact of clinical supervision in improving the
safety of patients, improved quality of care and enhancing the overall effectiveness of the
experience of care and patient. It sometimes directly affect they patient health outcomes by
analysing the reduction in the psychological symptoms which are shown by the patient
diagnosed with mental illness (Ning and Costello, 2017).
The clinical supervision supports the safe and effective nursing practices as it increase the
confidence and the value of the healthcare professionals and also enhance their job-
satisfaction. It helps in the personal development of the nurses so that they prove themselves to
be more effective in delivering the nursing intervention to improve mental illness (Harvey and
et.al., 2020). It also reduces the stress of the staff, improves the relationship among them and
also increase the level of confidence in them which can help them to implement the clinical
knowledge and professional skills. This improvement can be evaluated in certain ways like
increased knowledge, awareness about the possible solutions for the clinical problems,
enhanced self awareness and also engagement in the reflective practices which means the
professional knowledge is embedded in the experiences, and they learn from them to improve
their practice or interventions (King, Edlington and Williams, 2020). The last stage to analyse
the impact of the clinical supervision rests in the outcomes of the patient suffering from mental
illness.
The clinicians support equally in implementing the supervision by managing the risks, always
prepared to gain the knowledge and skills and also ready to adhere with all the laws regarding
the legal governance (ElZeneny Seada and El AleamEtewy, 2017).
This was also interpreted in ACSA that the nurses who received the clinical supervision reported
more number of job and personal resources along with increased level of motivation and
commitment rather than the ones who do not receive the same. The nurses plan effectively
about the interventions and implement the same in improving the symptoms of the patient with