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Clinical supervision in child protection for community nurses

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posted on 2005-01-01, 00:00 authored by P Green Lister, Beth CrispBeth Crisp
Community nurses have been recognized as having a key role in the protection and care of children, particularly in relation to the identification and detection of child abuse. In order to fulfill this role in a competent manner, they need to have access to appropriate supervision. The aim of this paper is to explore community nurses' and health care managers' understanding and experience of clinical supervision in child protection. The findings presented here were collected as part of a larger study commissioned by the Greater Glasgow Primary Health Care National Health Service (NHS) Trust. Ninety-nine nurses and nursing managers were interviewed, either individually or in groups, about their professional involvement in child protection issues and support for their involvement in child protection work, as well as their current knowledge and perceived training needs. The interview data was subjected to a thematic analysis. A lack of consensus was found among nurses and managers in Glasgow as to what constitutes clinical supervision and a good deal of variation in nurses' experiences of clinical supervision in the field of child protection. The historical difficulties with regard to supervision were attributed to several aspects of nursing culture. However, both nurses and managers emphasized the need for formal, regular, systematic supervision for all nurses regardless of their specific role with regard to child protection.

History

Journal

Child abuse review

Volume

14

Issue

1

Pagination

57 - 72

Publisher

Wiley Interscience

Location

Malden, Mass.

ISSN

0952-9136

eISSN

1099-0852

Language

eng

Notes

Published Online: 3 Feb 2005

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2005, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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