What is it about?
Nursing mentorship is an NMC requirement to support and assess student nurses. Its guided by the NMC standards for learning and assessment which is being changed in 2018 to having supervisors and assessors. How can this work in the community areas?
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Why is it important?
Its a big change coming that will have an impact on nursing standards.
Perspectives
Many of the guidance documents from RCN offered to NMC when considering changes focused on ward type models of mentorship. Considering the government drive toward community based care there appears a gap in considering impacts changes will have to these areas.
Judith Ball
NHS Providers
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This page is a summary of: Demands on community nurse mentors: Are new models for practice necessary?, British Journal of Community Nursing, October 2017, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/bjcn.2017.22.10.504.
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