Abstract
This paper introduces the concept of supportive supervision in community-based nursing intervention as a supervisory tool among health consumers. It provides overview of supportive supervision as management tool to facilitate delivery of quality service by the health care providers. It also describes the adaptability of this concept to supervision of community members following heath education and training with a view to enhancing and sustaining health promotion and prevention of diseases. The author describes utilisation of this tool in promoting and sustaining mothers’ skills in home management and prevention of malaria at a community level and recommends its usage by community health workers as a substitute to home visit for different populations within a community where there is dwindling human and material resources to carry out home visits so as to promote effective outcome. Key words: Supportive supervision, health education, sustaining, home management of malaria.
Highlights
Health education is a vital component of preventive medical care; its vitality is very significant in primary health care to the extent that it occupies the first position among all the components of the care and at the same time forms an integral part of all other components
In another study on role of supportive supervision on immunization programme outcome conducted by Djibuti et al (2009), the findings revealed that the effect of intervention on immunization managers independently contributed to the improvement of self-perceived knowledge to carry out supportive supervision
It is hope that the concept of home visiting in community health care practice could be modified to depict supportive supervision for caregivers in the communities to foster improvements in procedures, personal interactions, and provision of quality health care services
Summary
This paper introduces the concept of supportive supervision in community-based nursing intervention as a supervisory tool among health consumers. It provides overview of supportive supervision as management tool to facilitate delivery of quality service by the health care providers. It describes the adaptability of this concept to supervision of community members following heath education and training with a view to enhancing and sustaining health promotion and prevention of diseases.
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