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- Title
Collaborative supervision and professional development in Nursing.
- Authors
da Silva Pinheiro, Germana Manuela; de Carvalho Macedo, Ana Paula Morais; Nunes da Costa, Nilza Maria Vilhena
- Abstract
Background: Collaborative supervision explains the permanent transformation of professional practices from a coformative and developmental perspective. Objective: This study aims to identify the nurses’ conceptions of collaborative supervision and professional development in nursing care practice. Methodology: A qualitative empirical case study, including the Nursing team of an Internal Medicine unit of a Hospital Centre in Northern Portugal (N = 29). Data were obtained through document analysis, non-participant observation and semi-structured interviews. Results: Participants consider that collaborating means sharing, working in a team and helping the other, and that there are privileged collaborative moments in nursing care practice. Supervision emerges as a reality still apart from practice, and nurses tend to consider the supervisory process from a vertical perspective. As contributions to their professional development, nurses emphasise lifelong training, collaboration and the relationship between the person, the environment and the others. Conclusion: Despite the spontaneity and informality of both supervision and collaboration, these practices are closely related to the continuing professional development in Nursing.
- Subjects
PORTUGAL; CONTENT analysis; INTERPROFESSIONAL relations; INTERVIEWING; RESEARCH methodology; NURSES; NURSES' attitudes; NURSING practice; PROFESSIONAL employee training; RESEARCH funding; SUPERVISION of employees; QUALITATIVE research; JOB performance
- Publication
Revista de Enfermagem Referência, 2014, Vol 4, Issue 2, p101
- ISSN
0874-0283
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12707/RIII1381