Supervision and Assessment

As advanced practice roles continue to expand across professional groups and healthcare settings, Supervision and Assessment: Foundations of Advanced Practice uses a unique, multiprofessional lens to explore practices that are increasingly relevant in the advanced practice community. Part of the Demystifying Advanced Practice series, this new textbook brings together highly experienced academics, clinicians, and students who explore supervision and assessment from multiple perspectives, including workforce governance, business planning, diversity and inclusion, patient involvement, learner transitions, educator development, and international practice - all within postgraduate and advanced practice contexts.Draws on professional governance principles to emphasise that high-quality supervision and valid, fair, and reliable assessment underpin professional accountability, workforce development, and public safetyReflects the UK’s distinctive, multiprofessional approach to advanced practice development, as well as describing a range of international experiences that illustrate shared opportunities and challenges in advancing supervision and assessment practice globallyIncludes student input throughout, ensuring that those in training are supported to develop scholarly activity in a collaborative and compassionate mannerChallenges the common assumption that supervision and assessment are primarily activities associated with training; instead, it argues that both are fundamental to ensuring safe, effective advanced practice throughout a practitioner’s careerExamines the challenges associated with professional identity formation, increased autonomy, multiprofessional working, and role transition, providing practical frameworks, case studies, and reflective activities to support leaders, educators, supervisors, and assessorsExplores key contemporary themes such as neurodiversity, patient and public involvement in education, supervisor and assessor capability development, remote and rural supervision challenges, and moreThis book is the third in a new series of titles, Demystifying Advanced Practice, which will make accessible all aspects of advanced practice for the benefit of students and aspiring students, practitioners, educators, researchers, managers and leaders.