List of figures

List of tables

Editors

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction: Fundamental themes in clinical supervision: national and international perspectives of education, policy, research and practice

PART I

Clinical supervision: Personal and professional development or the nursing novelty of the 1990s?

Training for the supervision alliance attitude, skills and intention

An alternative training approach in clinical supervision

Clinical supervision: Visions from the classroom

Developmental transitions towards effective education preparation for clinical supervision

PART II

Implementing clinical supervision in a NHS community trust - sharing the vision

Implementing clinical supervision: A personal experience

Clinical supervision in nursing and health visiting: A review of the UK literature

Implementing clinical supervision in a large acute NHS trust: Starting from scratch

PART III

Clinical supervision: My path towards clinical excellence in mental health nursing

Maintaining quality care in the independent sector: Clinical supervision: a key piece of the jigsaw?

Clinical supervision for nurse educationalists: Personal perspectives from a postgraduate mental health nursing course

Providing cross discipline group supervision to new supervisors: Challenging some common apprehensions and myths

Developing methods for evaluating clinical supervision

Personal, professional and practice development: Case studies from clinical supervision practice in mental health nursing

Clinical supervision in multidisciplinary groups: Qualitative evaluation of clinical supervision using a focus group technique

PART IV

An Australian perspective on clinical supervision

Clinical supervision in Finland - history, education, research and theory

A North American perspective on clinical supervision

Clinical supervision and clinical governance for the twenty-first century: An end or just the beginning?

Index