p r o f e s s i o n a l.....s u p e r v i s i o n

The primary goal of professional supervision is to promote enablement and empowerment of the client. It is to protect the client’s interests and to support and enhance competent, confidant and ethical nursing and health care practice.

The practitioner is able to explore complex, stressful, ethical, challenging or concerning aspects of their practice in a safe environment. Such a climate of mutual respect and trust will allow supervision to have both a restorative and normative function regarding the roles; ethics; law; rules; and good practice of nursing and health care.

Supervision is considered by professional practitioners such as counsellors and psychologists as essential for both training and ongoing professional supervision of practice. It is increasingly advocated and sought by nurses and other health professionals as part of their professional accountability and self care:

• It increases personal learning and awareness
• It facilitates accountability for the parts of your practice where you are specifically using counselling and interpersonal skills
• It gives an opportunity for you to consider the interface and tension between the personal and professional dimensions of your practice
• It assists you to substantiate your practice and involvement in ongoing professional development
• It helps with the clinical casework management and quality maintenance
• It is considered an ethical requirement by most professional practitioners and groups
• It provides support during times of heightened stress and contributes to ‘burnout’ prevention.

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