Restorative Clinical Supervision

The Professional Nurse Advocate (PNA) is a leadership and advocacy role designed to support nurses to deliver safe and effective practice. 

A particularly important aspect of RCS is for staff to be given space and time to reflect on their responses to stress, adversity, and recovery from workplace setbacks. Methods used in RCS practice can take place as 1-1 meetings or as group sessions.

RCS gives staff the opportunity to take time to reflect on clinical practice and to learn and develop new skills in a supportive environment that promotes self-motivation, learning and professional development.

For more information please see the link below and refer to the attached documents. If you would like more information or to discuss RCS and the PNA role please contact jackie.sears@nihr.ac.uk

The A-EQUIP model has four distinct functions: normative, restorative, personal action for quality improvement and education and development. This reflection focuses principally on the restorative functionof RCS and is important in achieving high-quality healthcare practice which improves patient experience, safety and outcomes. RCS and the PNA role is a supportive relationship between individuals and supervisors that encourages discussion and reflective learning as part of professional practice, and can be used as a tool to support nurse re-validation, appraisal and as a critical point of recovery: for patients, for services and for the workforce. 

Gibbs, G., 1988. Learning by doing: A guide to teaching and learning methods. Further Education Unit. 

Wallbank, S., 2013. Maintaining professional resilience through group restorative supervision. Community Practitioner, 86(8), pp.26-28. 

Martin, P., Kumar, S., Tian, E., Argus, G., Kondalsamy-Chennakesavan, S., Lizarondo, L., Gurney, T. and Snowdon, D., 2022. Rebooting effective clinical supervision practices to support healthcare workers through and following the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 34(2), p.mzac030.