Nursing Leadership: Clinical Supervision and Feedback Analysis

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Introduction
Clinical supervision is a process that involves a relationship that is supportive between
the supervisor and the supervisee forming part of socialization in the nursing profession and
helps facilitate reflective learning. It is accountable and assuring, supportive and develops the
knowledge skills and values of an individual group or team. This clinical supervision aims to
provide a confidential and safe environment for staff to discuss and reflect on their work and to
both personal and professional responses to their work (Powell, 2009). High-quality clinical
supervision enhances job satisfaction reduces the amount of stress that is encountered in the
profession. Clinical supervision forms the basis through which quality care for patients and
enables the clinicians to develop their abilities, skills, and knowledge. The basis for clinical
supervision is to support clinicians in their professional and personal development and in
reflecting on their practice. It allows clinical workers to reflect on and challenge their practice in
a safe and confidential environment (Gopee, 2011). Feedback in the context of clinical
supervision is information that is specific after comparing a trainee’s performance through
observation and the set standards in the profession with the aim of improving the performance of
the trainee. Feedback in clinical supervision helps in the improvement of the clinician's skills,
behavior or knowledge. Regular and effective feedback can enable learner motivation and in the
reinforcement of good practice geared towards the outcome that is desired. This contributes
towards meeting requirements of professional bodies and regulatory requirements for continuing
professional development.
Critical analysis using Erick Berne’s (1961) model of transactional analysis

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Eric Berne’s' proposed a theory on transactional analysis that provides an image of how
people are psychologically designed. This theory of transactional analysis is founded by the
philosophy that people can change, and all people have a right to be accepted and be in this
world. This model was mainly impacted by one of the leading personality theories, the
psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud. Structural diagram is an aid which exemplifies the absolute
personality of any individual use d by a transactional analysis practitioner.
The Parent, Adult and Child are the three ego states in the model and they are different
from one another (Erskine, 2010). Berne’s definition of ego state was that there is a harmonious
marking of experience and feeling that corresponds directly to a behavioral pattern that is
consistence. In a bilateral communication, a transaction is initiated by one person by way of
transaction stimulus and the partner responds by way of a response that is transactional from the
directed stimulus. According to Berne (2016) simple transactional analysis is used identification
of which ego state directed the stimulus and which ego state in the other person executed the