Auditing a clinical supervision training programme

Webb, Barbara BSc(Hons), RGN

Date of acceptance: February 17 1997.
Barbara Webb BSc(Hons), RGN, is Nursing Development Officer, Northampton Community Healthcare NHS Trust.
This article has been subject to double-blind review.

Nursing Standard 11(34):p 34-39, May 14, 1997.

Nurses and service managers in a community trust were asked to evaluate a training course designed to help them implement the trust's clinical supervision policy.The audit identified several patterns of clinical supervision emerging within the trust. The author discusses the benefits of these to patients, staff and the organisation and draws some recommendations for nurses involved in implementing clinical supervision.