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Clinical supervision UK style: Good for nurses and nursing
Antoinette H Cotton
Lecturer, School of Nursing, Family and Community Health, University of Western Sydney, NSW
Abstract
British nursing has presented a particular view of clinical supervision and has made its availability an essential requirement for all nurses in the United Kingdom (UK). Through a plethora of literature, this view of clinical supervision has become widespread, as has the notion that it is good for nurses and nursing. In this paper, utilising a Foucauldian approach to discourse, power-knowledge and clinical gaze, I radically interrogate this seemingly unproblematic conceptualisation of clinical supervision and its rising popularity and influence.
Keywords
clinical, supervision, discourse, gaze, power, nurses, nursing
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