title: Live supervision and family systems nursing: postmodern influences and dilemmas.
abstract: Evolving nursing practices in a graduate nursing education programme that offers live clinical supervision in family systems nursing can be conceptualized within a postmodern perspective. Postmodernism is described as a debate about knowledge that questions traditional foundational theories or explanations in science, culture, religion and literature. Practices of a clinical supervision system, i.e. a graduate student, supervisor, and clinical team, illustrate postmodern influences on clinical work with families. Dilemmas posed by contemporaneity of modern and postmodern influences are also explored.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Tapp
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Wright
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory; D010684:Philosophy; D013041:Specialties, Nursing / Q000193:education*; D013598:Systems Theory