Richard I Jontry, Ph.D., MAC, CAC Diplomate, CCS
Licensed Psychologist

PRESENTS
CLINICAL SUPERVISION for NURSES

Clinical Supervision for Nurses has been designed for individuals who carry supervisory responsibilities for Nurses. The workshop will identify and describe the skills and processes involved in Clinical Supervision. Participants will be offered opportunities to identify their own styles of supervision; their personal roadblocks to effective supervision; and to develop strategies for overcoming personal roadblocks.

Clinical Supervision is the process by which a hospital or agency ensures the delivery of the highest quality of care possible to its patients while following and complying with state, federal and medical guidelines. The Supervisor is responsible for assuring the conformance of Nurses to the standards of conduct and performance that are reflected in the established polices, procedures, and rules of the agency and the Nurses association. The Supervisor has the designated authority and responsibility to engage in a process by which the work of the Nurse(s) may be planned, directed, controlled, coordinated, monitored, and evaluated. Furthermore, in order for nursing staff to meet the standards established for their work, the supervisory process ideally also involves education, training, mentoring and coaching.

The role of the Clinical Supervisor is highly charged and carries much responsibility. When patients also have diagnoses of substance abuse, mental health and co-occurring conditions, nursing staff faces special challenges. The dynamics of "difficult" and sometimes hostile patients will be explored and appropriate intervention strategies presented and discussed.

Format

Lecture and experiential activities will utilize materials gathered from research in the field of supervision and addictions. A simple yet widely accepted typology, the Enneagram, will be introduced as a tool to explore areas of personal difficulty in carrying out supervisory responsibilities. Attention will be devoted to distinguishing areas of supervisory difficulty; identifying staff characteristics supervisors experience difficulty with; and creating individual strategies for overcoming these difficulties. Supervisors will have the opportunity to role-play real life situations and review these experiences with feedback and coaching from their peers. Reading of selected articles and text pertaining to supervision will occur prior to the initial meeting, and in the time between future meetings. Examination and discussion of these materials will occur at each meeting. 

The training is divided into three stages. 

Stage I: Groundwork. Provides of an overview of the supervisory processes. Supervisory models are described and their individual benefits and shortcomings are discussed. Specific emphasis will be placed upon tailoring supervisory method and style to agency requirements. Legal, medical, and ethical parameters involved in supervision will also be discussed.

The trainer will moderate:

• Discussion of real life supervisory situations, dilemmas, conflicts, and difficulties.

• Examination of what causes conflict in supervision and what to do about it.

• Exploration of effective supervisory interventions and role-play of realistic situations. 
  
   

Stage II: Practicuum. Occurring after at least a week of utilizing material on the job. The training group will review back home agency experiences utilizing newly learned information and intervention strategies. The trainer will moderate examination of difficult supervisory situations, difficult supervisees, and other challenges of supervision in the "real world" and brainstorming solutions and creating effective working models for each participant in their particular agency situation. Participants will be required to bring an example of a real supervisory situation in their agency for role-play and peer review.  

Stage III: Evaluation. This stage follows successful completion of stages 1 and 2. It is designed specifically to teach Clinical Supervisors how to conduct effective competency-  based evaluations. These evaluations are designed to encourage a Nurse’s professional growth, as well as to give Supervisors a tool to effectively manage their clinical staffs.  

Goals and Objectives:

• Participants will be able to demonstrate a conceptual understanding of the generic skills involved in Clinical Supervision.
• Participants will be able to demonstrate appropriate use of supervisory intervention skills.
• Participants will demonstrate an understanding and ability to teach others how to manage difficult and/or hostile patients in a variety of settings.
• Participants will be able to demonstrate an understanding of their own roadblocks to utilizing supervisory intervention skills.
• Participants will create a supervisory contract and an intervention strategy to use with at least one Nurse they supervise.

 This offering is approved by the National Consortium of Chemical Dependency Nurses for 20 contact hours of continuing education.
and
This CE activity was approved by the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association,
an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialling Center's Commission on Accreditation for 17.5.contact hours of continuing education

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