Using specialist nurse mentors to boost placement capacity.
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Bailey, Elaine and Whitehead, Bill 2006. Using specialist nurse mentors to boost placement capacity. Nursing Times.
| Authors | Bailey, Elaine and Whitehead, Bill |
|---|---|
| Abstract | Mentors play a pivotal role in assessing and supporting nursing students. This can be rewarding but stressful. With increasing numbers of students requiring clinical placements, ward mentors are becoming overloaded. This article examines a new method of supporting senior nursing students in placement while alleviating the pressures on overworked mentors. It recommends the use of specialist nurses to support pre-registration students through a structured learning pathway. The scheme also opens up new areas for clinical allocations. This is a summary: the full paper can be accessed at nursingtimes.net. |
| Keywords | Nursing; Placement; Company personnel management; Health care industry; Attitude of Health Personnel; Clinical Competence; Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; Great Britain; Humans; Interprofessional Relations; Job Satisfaction; Mentors; Nurse Clinicians; Nurse's Role; Nursing Education Research; Program Evaluation; Social Support; Students, Nursing; Workload |
| Year | 2006 |
| Journal | Nursing Times |
| Publisher | Macmillan Publishing Ltd. |
| ISSN | 0954-7762 |
| Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/595934 |
| hdl:10545/595934 | |
| Publication dates | 28 Nov 2006 |
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| Deposited | 09 Feb 2016, 09:18 |
| Series | Vol 102 |
| Issue 48 | |
| Rights | Archived with thanks to Nursing times |
| Contributors | University of Derby |
| File | File Access Level Open |
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