ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on evaluating the effects of receiving clinical supervision,
and indicates that some progress has been made in this area. It
reviews current methods that have been suggested as a means to conduct
this evaluation and discusses the various techniques used by nursing
researchers, in relation to their usefulness and validity (see Winstanley, 1999).
The chapter also reviews the results and assessment instruments which were
used to evaluate clinical supervision in the largest study to date of this
kind (Butterworth et al., 1997). Following a new study by the same research
team, this chapter then reports on the progress made with the development
of an evaluation scale, specifically for evaluating clinical supervision (Win-
stanley, 2000). In addition, the chapter also includes key findings from this
study.
