Nurse prescribing: a case for clinical supervision

Abstract

This article will discuss the implications of nurse prescribing in mainstream primary health care and its impact on the fields of mental health and learning disabilities. Complexities and issues which require serious consideration by those nurses wishing to pursue such a specialist and extended role will be discussed in relation to these practice areas. Titchen's (1998) critical companionship model will be illustrated as an example of one framework for clinical supervision. This is to allow the processes, competencies and contextual issues to be explored by both novice and expert prescribers. The article concludes that for safe, effective and competency-based practice, clinical supervision also assists in mediating the professional and political aspirations in support of supplementary nurse prescribing.

Models of clinical supervision of relevance to remote area nursing & primary health care: A scoping review

“…A total of 11 articles met the inclusion criteria which described a specific clinical supervision model 48–58 …”

“…Within the 11 articles, six focused on general practitioners, four focused on practice nurses, and there was one article that focused on nurse practitioners 48–58 . All articles had a model that utilised a peer of the same profession for supervisor and supervisee; however, one of the models made use of general practitioners for clinical supervision of practice nurses.…”

“…All articles had a model that utilised a peer of the same profession for supervisor and supervisee; however, one of the models made use of general practitioners for clinical supervision of practice nurses. The clinical supervision models and/or cohorts were located in rural and metropolitan Australia, the United Kingdom and Denmark, and the USA 48–58 …”

“…Nine models provided initial training to supervisors, ranging in length of time from 2 to 4 days 48–58 …”

Mental health nurse prescribing: A qualitative, systematic review

“…Clinical supervision is acknowledged as important to nurse prescriber practice (Jukes et al . ). While regular clinical supervision was identified as helpful in the present review (Dobel‐Ober et al .…”