Bosede Adetifa

About me

I am a credentialled mental health nurse with over 15 years’ experience working across Mental Health inpatient and outpatient settings in Victoria. I have worked in clinical, management, leadership and psychotherapy roles both in private and public sectors. In recent years my primary role has been in teaching, mentoring, coaching and public speaking as clinical nurse educator. I have a group of individuals I provide clinical supervision to and I am committed to receiving clinical supervision myself. I have intermittently worked in and supported the clinical governance team in the space of quality and safety improvement projects and activities. I write blogs and podcast on health and wellbeing. I have a Facebook page on Positive Vibe-Happy culture, to create awareness of how maintaining positivity can create a peaceful culture in any environment you find yourself. I co-authored Yoruba app as part of my interest in traditional storytelling. As a community fellow with University of Melbourne, I engaged the community in a number of consultative discussions on the importance of storytelling, based on the title: “Connecting African youths to Elders: A Positive change through storytelling”. This project is a lifelong project for me as I will be extending it beyond Africans to all elders and youths irrespective of their cultural background.

My experience

All the role I have held involved supervising, mentoring, supporting, guiding and teaching others to maintain safety and quality at work. As a manager, I found myself supporting my staff to follow up with student’s clinical work appraisals, I have a group of staff who nominated me as their clinical supervisor and I took them all in and provided supervision. I used ACMHN clinical supervision guideline over the years and incorporating evidence-based guidelines to ensure my skills and knowledge are in line with current day practices. I have a high level of commitment for having a structure in place and I take this value to my own supervision as a supervisee. Since coming to the space of clinical nurse educator, I have developed training packages on Delirium, Psychological safety at work, aged care standard, Eder abuse, child care safety, Impact of Trauma on staff and patients and many more. Current

My current role/work

I currently work 3 days (24 hour per week) in Public Health Service as clinical nurse educator and 2 days (16 hours per week) in Private health services as psychotherapist and general nurse.
My current position as CNE is to support my supervisees build confidence in their roles. Also, to review relevant policies as I review current Clinical supervision database with professional colleagues to implement more strategic and strong clinical supervision database that is of high standard and accessible.

My training

Bachelor of Nursing (2007); Post graduate Diploma (Mental Health) (2008); Master Applied Management (Nursing) (2014); Skill for Life Adjustment and resilience Program course (2022); Mental Health First Aider’s training (2022); Group facilitation training (20016); Clinical Supervision training (2021 & 2023) Multiple short, aged care courses including Dementia essential training over the years – too many dates to list.

My approach to supervision

My approach to clinical supervision is that of facilitatory, supportive, respectful, honesty, curious, genuine and integrity. It is also important to prioritise self-care, so will be curious to know how my supervisees are looking after their physical and emotional health using reflective approach..