Mentor Update 12/13

University Campus Suffolk

Mentor Update Format:

• Group work around scenarios

• Group work feedback• Grading and assessment• Leading the learning• Effective governance• New curriculum

• Questions

Scenario

• Divide into groups

- Choose one of the following scenarios and discuss how you would mentor this student

- What are your key concerns?– Identify 1 person to feedback 3 or 4 key points or observations

Scenarios

1. David is on his last placement of the first year, his skills are satisfactory but he is consistently late and can be over familiar with patients telling them about his active social life. When approached he says that it hasn’t been a problem before.

2. Fern is a second year student, you know that she has a young family, she says that she can’t start early or do any weekends because she doesn’t have the childcare.

3. Sarah is a final placement student who is unable to prioritise and manage care for a small group of patients confidently. She has eight weeks left on placement.

Group work feedback

Grading and Assessment

• Clear expectations• Level of learner• Familiarity with assessment criteria• Opportunity to practice and assess• Feedback to learner• Sources of support

Leading the learning

• Planning your student’s learning experience

• Protecting time and engaging with your student

• Appropriate levels of direction and supervision - empowerment

Effective governance

• Setting expectations on professional behaviour

• NMC guidance for students

• Securing Educational Standards

• Utilising evaluation to develop the clinical learning environment

• Ongoing audit of Mentor standard

• Triennial review

UCS website

• http://www.ucs.ac.uk/practicelearning

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Curriculum review

• New curriculum based on most recent NMC (2010) Standards for Nurse Education

• Introduces ‘Fields of Practice’• Generic skills run through whole course

+ field specific skills from day 1• Patients must be formally involved in the

assessment of students’ practice• Year 1: Contributing to Care• Year 2: Assessing, planning,

implementing and evaluating care• Year 3: Leadership and Management

To take away…

• Curriculum hand-out• Triennial review FAQs

Useful Resources

• UCS Link Lecturers / Personal tutors / Programme Leader

• Allocations Office tel: (01473 338475) Assessment office tel: (01473 338450)

• Clinical Practice Facilitators & Practice Education Facilitators

• RCN (2007) Guidance for Mentors of Nursing & Midwifery students. RCN London

• CODP (2009) Standards and Guidance for Mentors. CODP, London

• NMC (2008) Standards to support learning & assessment in practice 2nd Edition. NMC, London

• NMC (2011 ) Guidance on professional conduct for nursing and midwifery students. 3rd Edition. NMC, London

• Mentorship Team at UCS - r.heathershaw2@ucs.ac.uk