Impact of clinical supervision on job satisfaction and emotional competence of nurses.

OBJECTIVE

To evaluate the impact of implementing the SafeCare clinical supervision model on nurses' job satisfaction and emotional competence profile.

METHODS

This is a quasi-experimental study, with a sample of 28 nurses from a hospital in northern Portugal. A self-administered questionnaire was applied, used as pre and post-test, which included: sociodemographic and professional characterization; "Job Satisfaction Scale"; and "Veiga Emotional Competence Scale". We conducted descriptive statistical analysis and the Wilcoxon Test.

RESULTS

A significant decrease in the nurses' satisfaction with hierarchical superior was observed in the post-test. No significant differences were found in the nurses' job satisfaction and emotional competence after the implementation of the SafeCare Model.

CONCLUSION

The SafeCare Model needs improvement, suggesting increasing the amount of training time administered to nurses and strengthening the healthcare institution's link to the Model.