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1 online resource |
| Summary |
The Nursing and Midwifery Council for the United Kingdom highlighted the importance of the role of the mentor in the development of competence in student nurses and midwives. Veronica Lambert and Margaret Glacken, as well as Zoe Wilkes, suggested that mentors were fundamental to the students smooth entry to the practice environment and clinical learning experience. Furthermore, the Nursing and Midwifery Council Standards for Learning and Assessment in Practice identified the requirement by all providers of clinical education experiences for student nurses and midwives to establish local registers of appropriately prepared mentors in practice, together with the development of a new preparation program for mentors. In 2013, the mentorship team within Edinburgh Napier University, which provides the Nursing and Midwifery Councilaccredited Mentorship in Practice Preparation Program within the South East of Scotland, identified the lack of data relating to the impact of the Nursing and Midwifery Council Standards for Learning and Assessment in Practice standards and the new mentorship preparation program. To address this deficit, we undertook a small-scale qualitative study to develop data using participant questionnaires and focus groups capturing the experience of mentor students, the sign-off mentors (i.e., senior mentors who assess the students ability to achieve the Nursing and Midwifery Council standards for pre-registration nurse and midwifery education), and service managers who had supported these students throughout this new approach to mentorship preparation. The experiences of these practitioners in relation to their involvement in either undertaking this new education program or in the support provided to these mentor students by their sign-off mentors and service managers were analyzed using a phenomenological approach |
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Mentoring -- Scotland.
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Nursing students -- Scotland.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1473970660 |
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9781473970663 |
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