Kontakt 2015, 17(1):e32-e41 | DOI: 10.1016/j.kontakt.2015.01.008

Historical and foreign legacy for the supervision concept in the Czech nursingNursing - Review article

Milena Vaňková^a,*, Sylva Bártlová^b

^a Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 1. lékařská fakulta, Ústav teorie a praxe ošetřovatelství

^b Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Zdravotně sociální fakulta, katedra ošetřovatelství a porodní asistence

In their work, the authors bring their attention to the essence of supervision, including selected theoretical starting points of the supervision concept. Their aim is to introduce, interconnect and outline the origins and traditions of the supervision concept mainly within the field of nursing as practiced in foreign countries, and in regard to the traditions which anchors the supervision concept in both psychotherapy and psychology, as well as in other contexts of helping professions. In their work, the authors introduce the theoretical foundation of clinical supervision practiced in nursing abroad and to bring forth terms and summary definitions of the thematically relevant outcomes of the supervision issues described in foreign nursing literature. They provide and discuss aspects concerning the essence of "concept" and legitimation of supervision and its relationship to the nursing practice; they observe supervision correlations from another viewpoint and in a different manner than other Czech authors have done under the existing conditions, mainly supervisors who have traditionally defined and presented the concept of clinical supervision in nursing from a professional standpoint.

Keywords: Clinical supervision; Nursing; Supervisor; Nurse; Conceptualisation; Professionalisation of supervision; Nurse education

Received: October 10, 2014; Accepted: January 23, 2015; Published: March 10, 2015  Show citation