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Clinical Supervision System: A Method for Improving Educational Performance of Nursing Personnel

Employing supervision methods which focuses on educational aspects may increase the effectiveness of nursing personnelʹs educational activities, especially patient education. The aim of this study-was to investigate the effect of clinical supervision on the effectiveness of nursesʹ educational performance. Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted using static groupsʹ comparison in which the control and experiment groups were compared by a post-test. Study samples included 72 patients who were matched and assigned into two distinct groups. Clinical supervision system was implemented through three steps in 3 wards of Samen-al-Aemme hospital in Mashhad for 6 months. The data gathering tool included patient information sheet, patient satisfaction from nursesʹ educational practice and rating scale of self-care knowledge and practice of patients. Data was gathered through interview and observation methods and analyzed by SPSS software. Results: The mean scores ofself-care knowledge and practice ofthe patients were 30.6 and 57.1 out o.l100, in the control and experiment groups, respectively. The mean score (~l patientsʹ satisfaction from nursesʹ educational practice was 19.6 in the control group and 20.9 in the experiment group, out (~l24. So that, independent t-test showed a significant difference between these two groups. Conclusion: Implementing clinical supervision system through observation, .feedback, discussion, and investigation, may develop nursesʹ knowledge and professional skills in patient education. Therefore, this supervision method could be regarded as an effective modelfor in-service education. More studies are required in order to investigate the effect ofthis model on other aspects ofnursesʹ practice.