Enhancing new graduate nurses and midwives person-centredness during the COVID-19 pandemic: The influence of a person-centred model of clinical supervision

<p dir="ltr">Person-centred healthcare is a shared expectation of healthcare organisations and healthcare professionals. However, achieving this in everyday practice has been challenging. Reasons for this include the need for healthcare staff to understand the meaning of person-centredness and then apply it to practice, a need to develop cultures that value and support person-centredness for care givers, care receivers and their significant others (named person-centred practice), and the recent pandemic.</p><p dir="ltr">Person-centredness should be embedded into every strategy at every level of the healthcare system. The Person-centred Practice Framework (McCance & McCormack, 2021) provides a structure to support the operationalisation of person-centredness in practice. The framework helps develop a shared language and understanding between the macro level and those caring at the clinical interface. It supports the understanding of the enablers and barriers to support person-centred practice.</p><p dir="ltr">Reflection is promoted as a key attribute of a person-centred practitioner and an expectation of nurses and midwives by regulatory bodies. Clinical supervision, as a reflective process, is proposed to enhance person-centred care, yet it lacks empirical evidence. Considering these factors, this study aimed to develop, deliver and evaluate a person-centred model of clinical supervision (named C.A.R.E.) to enhance the person-centredness of new graduate nurses and midwives (graduates) during the COVID-19 lockdown.</p>