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Enhancing the quality of allied health clinical supervision in a regional setting: An action research study

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posted on 2023-07-26, 01:15 authored by Marcus Gardner, Carol McKinstryCarol McKinstry, Byron PerrinByron Perrin
Objective: To explore and describe strategies to enhance the implementation of an organisational clinical supervision framework and subsequently inform the development of a model of implementation of clinical supervision for allied health professionals in a regional health care setting. Setting: A large regional health service in Victoria, providing hospital, rehabilitation, community, mental health and aged care services. Participants: Allied health managers employed at the health service were members of an action research group. Design: This longitudinal study used an action research approach. The action research group informed the repeated cycles of planning, action and reflection. Data from recorded action research meetings were analysed using content analysis. Results: The action research group met 11 times over a 5-year period informing four action research cycles. Six main themes relating to factors that enhanced the quality of clinical supervision emerged from the analysis of the action research group data: purpose and value of clinical supervision; clinical supervision characteristics; differences between disciplines; framework development; training and support and implementation of clinical supervision. Conclusion: The findings from this comprehensive longitudinal study provide evidence-based approaches to the implementation of allied health clinical supervision. The action research approach used ensures that the strategies described are realistic and sustainable. A model has been developed to inform the implementation of clinical supervision for allied health.

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Publication Date

2023-04-01

Journal

Australian Journal of Rural Health

Volume

31

Issue

2

Pagination

14p. (p. 308-321)

Publisher

Wiley

ISSN

1038-5282

Rights Statement

© 2022 The Authors. Australian Journal of Rural Health published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of National Rural Health Alliance Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.

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