Clinical supervision: The way forward? A review of the literature

SummaryA discussion of clinical supervision to enhance existing support structures such as preceptorship and mentorship to positively influence the recruitment and retention of newly graduate nurses provides the main focus for this paper. The nursing literature provides evidence for alternative but equally worthy perspectives on clinical supervision. Essential to the successful practice of clinical supervision is the need to ascertain whether it is simply a system to ensure an effective workforce or one that will empower nurses to realise their vision of nursing.