Resources for mentors and mentor updates
If you are a link lecturer or an agreed practice partner who is qualified to deliver mentor updates please attend an annual super mentor update to keep updated and follow the mentor update template provided by SNM.
Latest news from the NMC
What's new
- NMC Midwives rules and standards 2012 (pdf 6.6Mb)
- Student charter (pdf 354Kb)
- Mentor update template 2011-12 (pdf 96Kb)
- Sign-off mentor template 2011-12 (pdf 125Kb)
- Nursing BSc(Hons) – new degree pamphlet (pdf 214Kb)
- Curriculum development and the changing role of the nurse in society – presentation (pdf 55Kb)
- Diagram to show the student journey through the adult, child and mental health fields (pdf 347Kb)
- Frequently asked questions for student nurses (pdf 83Kb)
- Reasonable adjustment RCN guidance (pdf 656Kb)
- Mentor preparation module frequently asked questions (pdf 110Kb)
- On the right path – support and information if you are facing difficulties or thinking of leaving your course
Super mentor update
December 2012 Super mentor update
These simulations are useful triggers to discuss issues around assessing practice in a facilitated forum such as a mentor update session:
- Challenging Situations: Assessing Practice
- Challenging Situations: Seeking Support and Building Resilience
- Challenging Situations: Failing a Student
- Learning and Assessment in Practice: Formative Assessment
- Learning and Assessment in Practice: Giving Formative Feedback
- Learning and Assessment in Practice: Summative Assessment
- Learning and Assessment in Practice: Giving Summative Feedback
Archive of previous events
December 2011 Super mentor update
Stage 3 Practice Teacher
Here is the link to Newlands (2011) guidance on supervisory expectations and requirements of Practice Teachers in the long arming relationship of SCPHN students:
http://www.nmc-uk.org/Documents/Standards/Presentation-for-AEIs-and-practise-teachers.pdf
June 2011 Super mentor workshop
- Flyer/agenda (pdf 56Kb)
- Watch our mentor update simulation videos:
- New Mentorship Modules pamphlet (pdf 295Kb)
- Building Mentors Resilience presentation (pdf 315Kb)
- Mentoring resilience toolkit (pdf 61Kb)
November 2010 Super mentor update
- Flyer/agenda (pdf 128Kb)
- Final mentor update template (pdf 94Kb)
- Super mentor update presentation (pdf 298Kb)
- Mentor / Sign-off Mentor Guide including portfolio of evidence (pdf 375Kb)
- Mentorship register (pdf 70Kb)
- Mentor / Sign-off mentor update presentation (pdf 168Kb)
June 2010 Super mentor workshop
Recent achievements
- The Ripple Effect: The Role of Super Mentor Updates in Quality Enhancement (pdf 438Kb)
- The Ripple Effect: Partnerships working to quality enhance mentor updates (pdf 3.6Mb – see page 80)
Practice placement / learning opportunities information
- SNM programme planner 2012-13 (pdf 58Kb)
This is an abridged version for mentors. Students should consult the full planner in studentcentral. - SNM placement / learning opportunities documents – September 2012 (pdf 492Kb)
- Practice liaison lecturer contact details (pdf 201Kb)
- Practice liaison lecturer drop in sessions (pdf 157Kb)
Grading practice
- Introduction
- Overview and Marking
- Conclusion
- Student I – OSCE
- Student I – Feedback
- Student I - Markers Discussion
- Student II – OSCE
- Student II – Feedback
- Student II - Markers Discussion
Resources
- Disability Discrimination Act guidance for mentors (pdf 204Kb)
- Supporting students with disabilities (pdf 6.4Mb)
- Reasonable Adjustment in Practice: Learning Impairment
- Reasonable Adjustment in Practice: Sensory Impairment
- Reasonable Adjustment in Practice: Mental Health Issues
- Practice learning context (pdf 185Kb)
- Scotland core curriculum (pdf 951Kb) – this is a useful resource for mentorship programme provision, evidence of achievement of mentor outcomes and contains some useful scenarios
- Andrews et al 2010 paper on the complexities of maintaining and sustaining the NMC Standards 2008 is also useful to consider in relation to local partnership initiatives (view article - pdf 170Kb)
- Mapping evidence to the NMC Standards (pdf 167Kb)
- Full example of mentor portfolio (pdf 304Kb)
Links to NMC website mentorship
- NMC Standards to Support Learning and Assessment in practice 2008 (pdf 359Kb)
- NEW Education Standards for Nursing
- NMC Circular 05/2010 (pdf 45Kb)
Essential links
- NMC 2008 Standards to Support learning and Assessment in practice (pdf 359Kb)
- Additional information to support implementation of NMC Standards (pdf 52Kb)
- Standards for pre-registration nursing education
- Standards for pre-registration midwifery education (pdf 5.6Mb)
- Preceptorship Framework (DH) (pdf 704Kb)
- Flying Start England
