The major organisational change accompanying the introduction of Project 2000 and the
incorporation of nurse education into higher education exacerbated perennial concerns over …

Mentoring is an important teaching–learning process in undergraduate nursing curricula.
There are relatively few studies specifically evaluating nursing students' perceptions of …

Student nurses move from novice to beginning competency with enormous expectations
from their faculty, their peers and themselves. These expectations lead to stress that may be …

Mentoring is a voluntary partnership in which an individual with knowledge and experience
(mentor) acts as a role model, guide, and support, over an extended period of time, to …

Nurses who mentor nursing students in a dedicated educational unit play an essential role
in developing nursing students' knowledge, competencies, clinical skill, critical thinking …

The purpose of this applied research project was to develop a mentoring program for
nursing students with the plans for implementation and evaluation. The methodologies used …

This paper presents 23 mentors' perceptions of their role in a year-long mentorship program
during the period 1999–2002. The majority of mentors were clinical specialists, had …

This paper explores the relationship between nursing students and mentors and its
influence on nursing students' development of professional knowledge during their clinical …

Much has been written about the use of portfolios and mentoring in the clinical assessment
of nursing students in the United Kingdom. Research reports have focused on difficulties in …

In response to the increase in student nurse places and its impact on the mentors supporting
their practice modules, a number of coaching-based mentoring models have been piloted …