Successful Supervision in Health Care Practice: Promoting Professional Development

Successful Supervision in Health Care Practice: Promoting Professional Development Provides answers about how to implement supervision successfully and how to survive as a supervisor. It also provides guidance about the relationship between supervision and 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 are written by novice and experienced supervisors from a variety of health and social care professions. They provide hope and encouragement to practitioners whilst offering scenarios for discussion and role–play in classroom settings.
Key features:

Outlines strategies to improve health care provision through supervision.
Provides a research based model for effective supervision and how to implement it.
Details guidelines on preparing practitioners for their role as supervisors.
Emphasises the importance of continuing professional development of students and staff.
Equally applicable within a variety of health and social care professions.
Includes reflective case studies for discussion and role–play.
Practitioners who are receiving and providing supervision, irrespective of their career stage, will find the text and case studies essential reading. Educators will find this book contains a wealth of ideas and valuable material for designing courses for supervisors. Managers will be well informed of current thinking on supervision to enable effective policies to be designed and successfully implemented.

Spis treści:
Contributors.
Preface.
1. Creating a Quality Service (Jenny Spouse and Liz Redfern).
2. Clinical Supervision – Professional Development or Management Control (Nigel Northcott).
3. Personal Ac counts of Supervision.
4. Case Studies of Supervision During Organisational Change.
5. Supervision of Clinical Practice: The Nature of Professional Development (Jenny Spouse).
6. Supervision in Professional Practice: Implications for Educationalists and Practitioners (Jenny Spouse).
7. Supervision of Practice and the New National Health Service Quality Agenda (Liz Redfern with a contribution from David Robson).
Index.

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Successful Supervision in Health Care Practice: Promoting Professional Development Provides answers about how to implement supervision successfully and how to survive as a supervisor. It also provides guidance about the relationship between supervision and 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 are written by novice and experienced supervisors from a variety of health and social care professions. They provide hope and encouragement to practitioners whilst offering scenarios for discussion and role–play in classroom settings.
Key features:

Outlines strategies to improve health care provision through supervision.
Provides a research based model for effective supervision and how to implement it.
Details guidelines on preparing practitioners for their role as supervisors.
Emphasises the importance of continuing professional development of students and staff.
Equally applicable within a variety of health and social care professions.
Includes reflective case studies for discussion and role–play.
Practitioners who are receiving and providing supervision, irrespective of their career stage, will find the text and case studies essential reading. Educators will find this boo k contains a wealth of ideas and valuable material for designing courses for supervisors. Managers will be well informed of current thinking on supervision to enable effective policies to be designed and successfully implemented.