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A Nurse's Survival Guide to Mentoring

  • 1st Edition - January 28, 2011
  • Latest edition
  • 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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Description

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.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

All professional nurses.

Table of contents

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

Review quotes

"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

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 11, 2011
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Karen Elcock

Affiliations and expertise
Head of Programmes - Preregistration Nursing / Deputy Head of School, Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education, Kingston University and St George's, University of London, Kingston Hill Campus, Kingston Upon Thames, United Kingdom

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Kath Sharples

Affiliations and expertise
Learning Community Education Advisor, Practice Education Support Unit, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, Thames Valley University, Brentford, UK