Clinical Supervision in Allied Health: A Process and Model for Policy Development and Implementation

This thesis involved the design and implementation of a process for developing clinical supervision policy for allied health workers. Good clinical supervision is critical to ensuring quality care is provided to all patients who use the health care system. This study explored using a hermeneutic-inspired action-research method by policy end-users as a new way of developing clinical supervision policy. This research has resulted in a process and model that health care agencies can apply to improve the quality of clinical supervision