A systematic review of evidence relating to clinical supervision for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 1825-1837

  Pollock, Alex ^a   Campbell, Pauline ^a   Deery, Ruth ^b   Fleming, Mick ^c   Rankin, Jean ^b   Sloan, Graham ^d   Cheyne, Helen ^e  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d NHS AYRSHIRE AND ARRAN   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

allied health professionals; clinical supervision; literature review; midwives; nurses; systematic review

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL SUPERVISION; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; DATA BASE; ENGLISH (LANGUAGE); HUMAN; MIDWIFE; MODEL; NARRATIVE; NURSE; PARAMEDICAL PROFESSION; PUBLICATION; SYNTHESIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; NURSE MIDWIFE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; STANDARDS;

ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMANS; NURSE MIDWIVES; NURSES;

EID: 85013026973     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jan.13253     Document Type: Review

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