
A Nurse's Survival Guide to Mentoring
- 1st Edition - February 1, 2011
- Authors: Karen Elcock, Kath Sharples
- Language: English
Are you mentoring students? This is an indispensable handbook for: both new and experienced mentors seeking practical advice academic staff who deliver mentorship p… Read more
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Are you mentoring students?
This is an indispensable handbook for:
- both new and experienced mentors seeking practical advice
- academic staff who deliver mentorship programmes
- link lecturers who support mentors in practice.
- Guidance and tips on supporting and assessing
- Understanding accountability – mapping to NMC standards
- Skills focus, using case studies
- Hints, tips, insights and humour
- Supporting the student with a disability
- Using simulated learning
- The role of the sign-off mentor
Introduction
1 Mentoring Today
2 Mentoring and the NMC
3 Preparing for Students
4 Understanding the Practice Assessment Document
5 Orientation and the Initial Interview
6 Giving Feedback
7 The Midpoint Interview
8 Supporting the Failing Student
9 The Final Interview
10 The Role of the Sign-off Mentor
11 Mentoring Students with Disabilities
12 Mentoring Challenges
13 Using Simulated Learning
14 Evaluating the Learning Experience
Appendix: The developmental framework to support learning and assessment in practice
"The format enables the reader to identify particular areas of interest, and offers guidance on supporting and assessing in a user-friendly, accessible way...Written in down to earth language, this is a comapct and user-friendly guide. Complete with plastic cover and hard-wearing paper it is designed to be carried about and dipped into regularly. Speaking personally has been."
Nursing Standard, February 2012
- Edition: 1
- Published: February 1, 2011
- Language: English
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Karen Elcock
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