Supervision Standards for Nursing Project


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Supervision Standards for Nursing Project

"Supervision is defined as a process of professional support and learning, undertaken through a range of activities, which enables individual registrant nurses to develop knowledge and competence, assume responsibility for their own practice and enhance service-user protection, quality and safety" NIPEC 2006

NIPEC's report of The Review of Clinical Supervision for Nursing in the HPSS 2006 on behalf of the DHSSPS recommended a number of important actions. In July 2007, following on from the review, the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) issued two standards relating to supervision for nursing in Northern Ireland.

There is evidence from the 2006 NIPEC Workforce survey that the current level of supervision activity is 33% regionally for all registrants. This level was reported as being higher in midwifery, mental health and community settings.

It is the Department's expectation that over time there should be provision every registrant nurse to have access to appropriate and regular supervision. This will be performance monitored across each organisation providing care, starting from April 2009.

NIPEC has regionally co-ordinated, on behalf of the CNO, a project to implement the DHSSPS Standards issued in July 2007. A Regional Forum comprised of representatives from DHSSPS, Boards, Trusts, In-service education, Independent sector and the RCN were responsible for delivering the project outputs in 2008.

The outcomes of the project were achieved through a main working group and a learning and development sub-group who considered the criteria required to meet the standards and how they might be achieved.

At the first meeting in early October 2007, the Supervision Regional Forum agreed terms of reference, a Project Plan and began the task of putting together the working group and sub-group to advance the project outcomes. The initial Briefing Paper and minutes for meetings of the Supervision Regional Forum can be found here.

The Regional Policy and Procedure template for supervision in nursing and the Learning and Development Strategy, developed as a result of this project are now available. To access these documents please click Regional Policy and Procedure or Learning & Development Strategy. To download the final Project report, please click here.

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