Cost and resource implications of clinical supervision in nursing: an Australian perspective

Edward White; Julie Winstanley

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2934.2006.00721.x

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Cost and resource implications of clinical supervision in nursing: an Australian perspective

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Cost and resource implications of clinical supervision in nursing: an Australian perspective

Edward White and Julie Winstanley

Journal of Nursing Management, Vol.14(8), pp.628-636

2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2934.2006.00721.x

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clinical supervision

financial costs

management

resources

The aim of this article was to explore the resource and management issues in introducing and maintaining a clinical supervision programme for nurses. A number of federal, state and non-governmental agency reports have recently indicted the quality of present-day mental health service provision in Australia. Clinical supervision in nursing has been widely embraced in many parts of the developed world, as a positive contribution to the clinical governance agenda, but remains largely underdeveloped in Australia. Using data derived from several empirical clinical supervision research studies conducted in mental health nursing settings, preliminary financial modelling has provided new information for Nurse Managers, about the material implications of implementing clinical supervision. It is suggested that, on average, the cost of giving peer group one-to-one supervision to any nurse represented about 1% of an annual salary. When interpreted as a vanishingly small cap on clinical nursing practice necessary to reap demonstrable benefits, it behoves Nurse Managers to comprehend clinical supervision as bona fide nursing work, not an activity which is separate from nursing work.

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Title: Cost and resource implications of clinical supervision in nursing: an Australian perspective
Authors: Edward White (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health and Education
Julie Winstanley (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health and Education
Publication details: Journal of Nursing Management, Vol.14(8), pp.628-636
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Date published: 2006
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2934.2006.00721.x
ISSN: 0966-0429
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449892502621
Output Type: Journal article

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