Main description:

This fully revised and highly accessible second edition of Mentorship and Clinical Supervision Skills in Health Care: Learning Through Practice, from the Nursing and Health Care Practice series, provides all the background, theory and practical knowledge required to be an effective mentor within nursing and health care.

The text explores mentorship from the stance of a student and from that of a qualified health care professional, to encourage critical understanding and securing its appeal to professionals and trainees in the field.

Completely up-to-date, this text is written in line with the new NMC requirements and provides coverage of key developments in the field including: the role of technologies and e-portfolios in nursing and health care education; the growing importance of experiential learning and the role of reflection; recent changes in assessment techniques and the conceptualisation of validity, reliability and discriminatory power.

Contents:

1 - Introduction
2 - Learning from and in clinical practice
3 - Mentorship in Nursing
4 - Models of Professional development and support - Preceptorship and Clinical Supervision
5 - Identifying individual learning needs
6 - Experiential learning and the role of reflection
7 - Focusing on assessment
8 - New technologies in 21st century practice learning and teaching
9 - Influences on the quality of practice learning
10 - Creating a climate for learning
Appendix - Answers to Rapid Recap Questions