Successful Supervision in Health Care Practice: Promoting Professional Development

Supervision has become a key strategy in promoting an effective and efficient health service. Yet often it is poorly understood by practitioners or lacks support in service settings.

Successful Supervision in Health Care Practice: Promoting Professional Development provides answers about how to implement supervision successfully and how to survive as a supervisor. Its also provides clear guidelines on the relationship of supervision to clinical governance. There is a strong theoretical and research base throughout the book that offers an approach to learning in practice. This book raises interesting questions about the nature and purpose of supervision for practitioners. The reflective accounts in this text are written by novice and experienced supervisors from a variety of health and social care professions. They provide hope and encouragement to practitioners, while offering scenarios for discussion and role-play in classroom settings.

Educators will find this book contains a wealth of ideas and valuable material for designing courses for supervisors. Practitioners who are receiving supervision, irrespective of the stage in their career, will find the text and case studies essential reading. Managers will learn about current thinking on supervision that will enable effective policies to be designed and successfully implemented.

Dr. Jenny Spouse is Associate Dean for Practice Education at City University.

Liz Redfern has a background in nursing and nursing education and worked at the English National Board. She has served as Director of Nursing for Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust.