Advisory Articles: Clinical Supervision: Tony Bush wrote an article regarding overcoming barriers to effective clinical supervision, which was published on the Nursing Times website. Bush's publication was influenced by the fact that clinical supervision is one of the most commonly misunderstood practices in contemporary nursing. However, clinical supervision provides a supportive and nurturing service to nurses, helping them to critically reflect on actions when providing patient care. Accordingly, the author seeks to examine and explore the existing role and status of clinical supervision in nursing health service. Clinical supervision is basically described as a complex activity with multifaceted functions that seeks to provide emotional support to counselors receiving supervision and providing them with additional education. This concept can also be described as a means to evaluate and monitor the professional performance of consultants and to improve the quality of their respective tasks. In the nursing field, clinical supervision focuses primarily on improving nursing practice, increasing professional nurse accountability, and improving patient care (Bush, 2005, p.36). This concept should seek to address several challenges that emerge from the feelings of loneliness that nurses experience in the modern nursing environment as they work to meet standards and charters. This results in feelings of hopelessness, which are likely to have considerable effects on the nurse-patient relationship. In particular, the use of clinical supervision in the nursing profession is hampered by several barriers attributed to individual and organizational factors. Some of these barriers include… middle of paper… The client's self-esteem and the counselor's self-esteem play a crucial role in determining the effectiveness of the process. For the client, self-esteem problems make it difficult to develop adequate strategies to deal with his problems, while the counselor's self-esteem problems make it difficult to provide the most appropriate support to the client. When working with clients, I will not only examine their self-esteem issues, but I will also examine my own to develop effective interventions. On the other hand, Marley's article shows the importance of letting clients develop their own self-help strategies when dealing with stress and anxiety. I will encourage clients to develop their own self-help strategies based on personal beliefs, social networks and coping ideas in order to distract them from their problems while they seek physical and psychological well-being.