The state of the science of clinical supervision in Australia and New Zealand

Clinical supervision (CS) for nurses in Australia and New Zealand in many ways has mirrored the experience of our nursing colleagues in the United Kingdom. Synergies can be found in the literature, in policy statements from the Departments of Health, nursing boards, peak professional and industrial bodies, from individual organisations and nurses' lived experience. Our struggles to universally define, implement and evaluate CS are not unique; similar struggles have been identified throughout the world - CS for nurses remains a global challeng (Lynch and Happell 2008; White and Winstanley 2009)