Superficial supervision: are we placing clinicians and clients at risk?
Mental heath nurses recognise the importance of professional boundaries and therapeutic relationships and understand that clinical supervision is an important component to good clinical practice and their ongoing professional development. This qualitative constructivist grounded theory research has uncovered a potential risk in contemporary mental health clinical practice, where the desire for expedient answers may compromise the outcome of formal structured supervision. The notion of a new concept 'superficial supervision' and its implications for formal structured supervision are explored.
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Division of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, City East Campus, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Andrew
A
Gardner
Helen
H
McCutcheon
Maria
M
Fedoruk
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002983:Clinical Competence; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008318:Malpractice / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011363:Professional Impairment / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000941:ethics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012308:Risk Management; D013021:South Australia; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires