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Model for investigating the benefits of clinical supervision in psychiatric nursing: A survey study
Author(s) -
Gonge Henrik,
Buus Niels
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
international journal of mental health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.911
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1447-0349
pISSN - 1445-8330
DOI - 10.1111/j.1447-0349.2010.00717.x
Subject(s) - vitality , depersonalization , mental health , workload , burnout , danish , coping (psychology) , test (biology) , clinical supervision , nursing , scale (ratio) , medicine , job satisfaction , psychology , psychiatry , emotional exhaustion , clinical psychology , paleontology , philosophy , linguistics , physics , theology , social psychology , quantum mechanics , computer science , biology , operating system
The objective of this study was to test a model for analysing the possible benefits of clinical supervision. The model suggested a pathway from participation to effectiveness to benefits of clinical supervision, and included possible influences of individual and workplace factors. The study sample was 136 nursing staff members in permanent employment on nine general psychiatric wards and at four community mental health centres at a Danish psychiatric university hospital. Data were collected by means of a set of questionnaires. Participation in clinical supervision was associated with the effectiveness of clinical supervision, as measured by the Manchester Clinical Supervision Scale (MCSS). Furthermore, MCSS scores were associated with benefits, such as increased job satisfaction, vitality, rational coping and less stress, emotional exhaustion, and depersonalization. Multivariate analyses indicated that certain individual and workplace factors were related to subscales of the MCSS, as well as some of the benefits. The study supported the suggested model, but methodological limitations apply.