Perception of Portuguese nurses: clinical supervision and quality indicators in nursing care - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem

ABSTRACT

Objectives:

to describe nurses’ perception of the influence of clinical supervision on improving quality indicators in nursing care.

Methods:

exploratory research with a qualitative approach, carried out with 16 nurses using the focus group. Data processing emerged from lexicographical textual analysis, resorting to Descending Hierarchical Classification and similarity analysis.

Results:

80.0% retention of 185 text segments with six-class construction. The words were represented by four graphs (supervisor, audit, care, and process); and three subgraphs (implementation, sharing and knowledge).

Final Considerations:

in the perception of nurses, supervision influences quality indicators in nursing care.