Clinical supervision questionnaire results

How do nurses know that they are practising in a safe, effective and professionally enriching way? And how or where do they get the professional support to develop their role when they need it, or the opportunity to share their expertise, to pass it on and expand the body of professional knowledge for the benefit of patient and client care? These questions were raised in an article on clinical supervision in Nursing Times on September 28. With the article was a questionnaire which invited readers to let the Department of Health, the UKCC and local policy-makers know how Nursing Times readers would like clinical supervision to be developed. Respondents were offered the opportunity to attend a major national conference to be held in November and one respondent would win a weekend for two at Ragdale Hall health farm, Leicestershire. This article briefly recaps the events which have led to clinical supervision being such an important and topical subject and discusses the results of the questionnaire.