A Nurse's Survival Guide to Mentoring

by Karen Elcock BSc MSc PGDip CertEdFE RN RNT FHEA, Kath Sharples BN MA PGDip PGCert RGN RNT

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780702047725
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	02/01/2011
Series:	A Nurse's Survival Guide
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	2 MB

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

Editorial Reviews

"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

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