Enabling Learning in Nursing and Midwifery Practice: A Guide for Mentors
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Overview
With current Government targets to increase health and social care practitioners, there is an increased need for informed mentors and preceptors to support the development of the students and new health professionals.
Enabling learning in nursing and midwifery practice: A guide for mentorsseeks to underpin recent mentoring initiatives, exploring the impact of mentoring, supervision and preceptorship on professional practice, covering principles that underpin effective learning and providing practical guidance on mentoring and assessment strategies within practice settings.
Enabling learning in nursing and midwifery practice: A guide for mentorsaddresses the inter-professional and policy context for mentorship, examines the nature of effective learning environments and provides mentors with the necessary tools to assist students in their development within a practice setting. It explores the use of reflective practice, virtual learning and other core resources to enhance and support learning in practice and addresses assessing practice, making correct judgements about student competence and the development of competence in newly qualified practitioners.
Enabling learning in nursing and midwifery practice: A guide for mentorsis an important resource text for practitioners seeking to support learning in practice as well as experienced mentors and preceptors seeking to update their skills and understanding.
Key features
* Evidence-based, practical guide to effective mentoring and preceptorship
* Integrates theory and practice
* Addresses the context of learning in practice and the challenges of clinical supervision
* Promotes understanding of the importance of assessing practice and managing the mentoring process
* Equips mentors to enable students and newly qualified staff to gain confidence and expertise
* Includes activities, points for reflection and examples from practice
Synopsis
With current Government targets to increase health and social care practitioners, there is an increased need for informed mentors and preceptors to support the development of the students and new health professionals.
Enabling learning in nursing and midwifery practice: A guide for mentorsseeks to underpin recent mentoring initiatives, exploring the impact of mentoring, supervision and preceptorship on professional practice, covering principles that underpin effective learning and providing practical guidance on mentoring and assessment strategies within practice settings.
Enabling learning in nursing and midwifery practice: A guide for mentorsaddresses the inter-professional and policy context for mentorship, examines the nature of effective learning environments and provides mentors with the necessary tools to assist students in their development within a practice setting. It explores the use of reflective practice, virtual learning and other core resources to enhance and support learning in practice and addresses assessing practice, making correct judgements about student competence and the development of competence in newly qualified practitioners.
Enabling learning in nursing and midwifery practice: A guide for mentorsis an important resource text for practitioners seeking to support learning in practice as well as experienced mentors and preceptors seeking to update their skills and understanding.
Key features
* Evidence-based, practical guide to effective mentoring and preceptorship
* Integrates theory and practice
* Addresses the context of learning in practice and the challenges of clinical supervision
* Promotes understanding of the importance of assessing practice and managing the mentoring process
* Equips mentors to enable students and newly qualified staff to gain confidence and expertise
* Includes activities, points for reflection and examples from practice
Doody Review Services
Reviewer:Robin Webb Corbett, PhD, RN C(East Carolina University)
Description:This book is written for nurse midwifery practitioners or other healthcare providers who have a strong clinical background but lack academic preparation as a clinical educator. With an increased demand for clinically competent providers, there is a greater need for review of teaching learning principles and strategies for the busy clinician.
Purpose:The purpose is to help busy healthcare providers and nurse midwives understand the principles of teaching learning and assessment strategies in the practice setting. While supporting learning in the practice environment, this book supports novice and experienced clinical educators and mentors. There continues to be a shortage of healthcare providers and preceptors, worsened by the growing shortage of healthcare educators. This book provides evidence-based strategies to assist new and experienced educators in the clinical arena.
Audience:It is written for practitioners in nurse midwifery and similar health disciplines and is appropriate for clinical practitioners who serve as mentors and preceptors. The authors contend the book is also appropriate for students in health sciences, but that is less clear.
Features:This is a concise, succinct review of teaching learning principles and assessment strategies for novice and experienced clinical practitioners who are now educators in their disciplines. Strong points include the simple, direct style of writing, activities for practitioners for reflection upon the learning process in the clinical area, and inclusion of a chapter on Internet learning. Although the book is characterized as useful for other healthcare disciplines, it is very specific to nurse midwifery and its competencies, standards of care, and roles of mentors, etc.
Assessment:As an experienced educator, I didn't expect to find new information that would assist me as a clinical educator, but I did. For example, the chapter on factors that influence assessment in practice offered strategies I could use tomorrow with a student who is performing poorly in clinical. This book is concise, direct, with opportunity for personal and professional reflection and on target for healthcare professionals wanting to increase their educational skills.
Editorials
From The Critics
Reviewer: Robin Webb Corbett, PhD, RN C(East Carolina University)Description: This book is written for nurse midwifery practitioners or other healthcare providers who have a strong clinical background but lack academic preparation as a clinical educator. With an increased demand for clinically competent providers, there is a greater need for review of teaching learning principles and strategies for the busy clinician.
Purpose: The purpose is to help busy healthcare providers and nurse midwives understand the principles of teaching learning and assessment strategies in the practice setting. While supporting learning in the practice environment, this book supports novice and experienced clinical educators and mentors. There continues to be a shortage of healthcare providers and preceptors, worsened by the growing shortage of healthcare educators. This book provides evidence-based strategies to assist new and experienced educators in the clinical arena.
Audience: It is written for practitioners in nurse midwifery and similar health disciplines and is appropriate for clinical practitioners who serve as mentors and preceptors. The authors contend the book is also appropriate for students in health sciences, but that is less clear.
Features: This is a concise, succinct review of teaching learning principles and assessment strategies for novice and experienced clinical practitioners who are now educators in their disciplines. Strong points include the simple, direct style of writing, activities for practitioners for reflection upon the learning process in the clinical area, and inclusion of a chapter on Internet learning. Although the book is characterized as useful for other healthcare disciplines, it is very specific to nurse midwifery and its competencies, standards of care, and roles of mentors, etc.
Assessment: As an experienced educator, I didn't expect to find new information that would assist me as a clinical educator, but I did. For example, the chapter on factors that influence assessment in practice offered strategies I could use tomorrow with a student who is performing poorly in clinical. This book is concise, direct, with opportunity for personal and professional reflection and on target for healthcare professionals wanting to increase their educational skills.
From the Publisher
“This book is concise, direct, with opportunity for personal and professional reflection and on target for healthcare professionals wanting to increase their educational skills.” (Doody's Reviews, June 2009)