Professional supervision is essential for nurses who support people experiencing mental health and addiction problems, along with their families and whānau, to thrive and experience wellbeing wherever they live and whatever their circumstances. It allows space and time to reflect on practice and professional identity.
The ability for nurses to understand and engage in supervision is inherent in the following practice standards:
These standards are underpinned by Let’s get real: Real Skills for people working in mental health and addiction (Ministry of Health, 2008), which highlights the importance of understanding and engaging in supervision.
In 2011, Te Pou published three professional supervision guides to assist nurses to understand and implement professional supervision. These guides were revised in 2016-2017 and have one overarching whakatauki -Te Tirohanga a te Manu - “A bird’s perspective”. The main changes include more information on:
This guide is specifically designed to help nursing leaders and managers understand what professional supervision is and how it relates to nursing. It defines the responsibilities of the organisation and provides guidance on how to implement and evaluate professional supervision from an organisational perspective.
This guide is designed to help more experienced mental health and addiction nurses, who are either new to the role of supervisor or are already supervisors, gain a more technical understanding of their roles and responsibilities. This guide should be used to enhance supervision training.
This guide is for nurses who are new to supervision, for example, new graduate nurses. It outlines key issues to be aware of when beginning a professional supervision relationship and how to participate in professional supervision. It identifies the different kinds of supervision. This guide may be useful to read before a supervision training module.
These guidelines are intended to set a national direction for professional supervision.
Evaluation of a training package for the implementation of professional supervision.
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