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" Clinical supervision activity among mental health nurses : "
Duncan-Grant, Alec.
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Latin Dissertation
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1093756
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TLets299192
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Duncan-Grant, Alec.
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Clinical supervision activity among mental health nurses :\ Duncan-Grant, Alec.
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University of Brighton
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1999
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1999
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Ph.D.
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This qualitative study IS underpinned by interpretive-constructionistmethodological governing principles, and took shape around a developingresearch focus and aim rather than in relation to pre-existing research questions.The focus of the research is on clinical supervision activity. This refers to formaland informal research encounters with participants and significant others in theorganization in which the study was carried out, about: the experience of thepractice of clinical supervision; attempts to translate textual prescription anddescription of clinical supervision into organizational reality; finally, themeaning endowment placed on both of the above by myself, my participants, andsignificant others associated with my research. In order to address an importantgap in the literature, the aim of the research developed as the need to unpack andclarify the meaning, and the affective and organizational theoretical implicationsof clinical supervision activity.Part one of the ethnographic report is constructed around three overlappingcategories: owning, resisting and feeling. These categories are developedaround the proposition that the bureaucratic rationality inscribed within both theliterature on clinical supervision, and in organizational attempts to implement it,fails to take account of both the emotional underlife of the organization and otherorganizational factors. Specifically, I argue that clinical supervision activity,and my inscription within it as 'insider' researcher', was influenced, shaped andconstrained by the pre-existing interpersonal rules and norms of the organizationin which my research was conducted. Those governed what could and could notbe done or said in or about clinical supervision activity, arguably underminingorganizational goals to implement it.Part two of the ethnography explores the maIn theoretical and conceptualimplications an sIng from the preceding ethnographic construction, aroundstructural organizational power and politics. This addresses a significant gap inthe contemporary literature in clinical supervision in nursing and mental healthnursing. I conclude with a critical auto-critique of the study itself, around adiscussion of its strengths and limitations and possible future research directions
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Health services community care services
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University of Brighton
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