Mentorship in Community Nursing (eBook)

Challenges and Opportunities

Judith Canham, Joanne Bennett (Autoren)

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2008
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-68026-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The importance of the community practice teacher is increasing with the expansion in primary care. Universities around the country have developed courses for practice educators to provide definitive training for that role - there are currently few texts that support these courses directly.

This book aims to redress this by covering eight specialist areas of community practice: district nursing, health visiting, school nursing, children's community health nursing, community nursing mental health, community nursing learning disability, general practice nursing and occupational health nursing. The emphasis is strongly on practical issues rather than theory and each section considers practice-based dilemmas and offers appropriate debate.

Judith Canham is the author of Mentorship in Community Nursing: Challenges and Opportunities, published by Wiley.

Joanne Bennett is the author of Mentorship in Community Nursing: Challenges and Opportunities, published by Wiley.

Inhalt

MENTORSHIP IN COMMUNITY NURSING: CHALLENGES AND OPPURTUNITIES 1
Contents 7
Contributors 13
Acknowledgements 15
Introduction 17
Part 1: The Policy Context 21
1 Setting the Scene: Concepts of Specialist Practitioner and Specialist Practice Mentor 23
Specialist practice 23
Programme organisation to meet specialist practitioner outcomes 24
The mentor for specialist practice in community settings 26
Case study 1.1 Moving toward good mentorship 28
Case study 1.2 Uncovering the mysteries of specialist practice 30
Context 30
2 From Policy to Practice 32
Introduction 32
The need for change 33
The development of primary care groups 34
Implications for the preparation of specialist practitioners and the role of the mentor 38
Summary 40
3 Maintaining and Developing Quality and Equity within Higher Education Programmes 41
Introduction 41
Key quality systems 42
Quality assurance 42
Quality audit 48
Quality enhancement 49
Conclusion 50
Part 2: Theory and Practice Context 51
4 Learning Approaches in the Practice Context 53
Introduction 53
Critical thinking 54
The mentor's role 54
Competency 55
Case study 4.1 Indentifying specialist practice competencies 56
Adult learning: andragogy 58
Case study 4.2 Enabling the development of leadership 60
The humanistic approach 61
Case study 4.3 Utilising educational approaches to facilitate learning 63
The behavioural approach 63
The cognitive approach 64
The learning environment: organising opportunities for learning 64
Case study 4.4 Using learning opportunities 65
Students' learning styles 67
Theory-practice integration 68
The application of educational theory 69
Summary 69
5 Reflective Practice 70
Introduction 70
Reflection 71
What is critical incident analysis? 74
Case study 5.1 Critical incident: dysfunctional multi-disciplinary team work 78
Reflection on process 79
6 Clinical Supervision for the Specialist Practitioner Student 82
Introduction 82
Educational clinical supervision 83
Prerequisites to clinical supervision 85
Power 87
Assessment and supervision 88
Training 89
The supervisory relationship 89
Case study 6.1 Counter-transference in clinical supervision 90
Turning lived experience into learning experience 91
A reflective model for educational supervision 91
Supervision for the mentor 93
Envoi 94
7 The English National Board Higher Award: A Strategy for Change 96
Introduction 96
What is the ENB Higher Award? 96
The process 98
Issues for consideration 104
8 Assessment of Specialist Community Practice 105
Introduction 105
Standards of assessment 106
Purpose of assessment 107
Types of assessment for specialist practice 107
Case study 8.1 Continuous assessment: a means of enabling development 109
Methods of assessment 110
Case study 8.2 Diagnostic assessment: a starting point 112
Case study 8.3 Observation as an assessment tool 112
Case study 8.4 A learning contract as a learning and assessment tool 114
Reliability and validity 115
Identifying the academic level of practice assessment 115
Practice assessment 116
Portfolio development (Joanne Bennett) 118
Comment 120
Summary 121
Part 3: Practice: Opportunities and Challenges 123
9 The Evidence and Research Base for Practice 125
Part 1 Evidence-based practice 125
Introduction 125
The development of evidence-based practice 125
Part 2 Research-minded practice and research culture 127
Introduction 127
The meaning of research for those in practice 128
Fostering a research culture 129
Conclusion 130
10 General Practice Nursing 131
Introduction 131
General medical practice and the role of the practice nurse 131
Facilitating practice learning in general practice nursing 133
Case study 10.1 Arranging appropriate mentorship and placement 134
Case study 10.2 Facilitating development for an experienced practitioner 135
Evaluating mentorship in general practice nursing 135
Conclusion 137
11 Community Mental Health Nursing 138
Introduction 138
The specialist practitioner award and community mental health nursing 139
Case study 11.1 Mentorship for an experienced practitioner 140
The role of the community mental health nurse 141
Case study 11.2 Creative mentorship 7
What helps mentors carry out the role successfully? 142
Conclusion 144
12 Community Learning Disability Nursing 145
Introduction 145
Viability of programmes 146
The preparation of the mentor 146
Case study 12.1 Mentorship requirements: who and where? 147
Support for the mentor 148
The student as learner 148
Case study 12.2 Managing potential role and relationship conflict 149
Student learning - environment, experience and assessment 150
Student assessment 150
Conclusion 151
13 Community Children's Nursing 152
Introduction 152
Focus group 153
Case study 13.1 Specific placements to meet learning needs: example 1 155
Case study 13.2 Specific placements to meet learning needs: example 2 155
Conclusion 159
14 Health Visiting 160
Introduction 160
Health visiting: some current issues and dilemmas for mentors 161
Managing the learning experience 163
Case study 14.1 Students* experience of very different placements 164
Case study 14.2 Managing the first few months of the placement 165
Assessment of practice 168
Conclusion 169
15 Occupational Health Nursing 171
Introduction 171
Occupational health services 172
Factors influencing the facilitation of learning in occupational health nursing 172
Case study 15.1 Denied access to learning 174
A more positive perspective 174
Strategies for bridging the practice-theory gap in occupational health nursing 175
Case study 15.2 Using an experiential taxonomy 177
Summary 177
16 District Nursing 179
Introduction 179
Policy context 179
Implications for district nursing 180
Challenges for the mentor 181
Case study 16.1 The need for practitioner development: views of a nurse executive (personal medical service) 181
The teaching and learning environment 182
Case study 16.2 A student profile 182
Conclusion 185
17 School Nursing 186
Introduction 186
The role of the school nurse specialist practitioner 186
Mentor preparation 187
Case study 17.1 Managing mentorship and existing role commitments 188
Mentor support 188
Case study 17.2 Being a mentor and a 'student* Fostering a positive student-mentor relationship 189
Case study 17.3 Enabling student self confidence Facilitating the achievement of learning outcomes 189
Case study 17.4 Am I doing it right? Using a tripartite relationship 190
Assessment 191
Strategies for student support 191
Case study 17.5 Facilitating appropriate student support 192
Conclusion 192
18 Being a Specialist Practitioner Student 193
Introduction 193
The practicalities of becoming a part-time student 193
Practice placement 194
Reflecting on the student role 194
University experience 195
Home life 196
The ENB Higher Award 196
Consolidated practice? 197
Back to reality 198
Supporting other specialist practitioners 198
Conclusion 199
19 Being a Mentor 200
Introduction 200
The learning environment 201
Case study 19.1 Reflection: a beneficial process for student and mentor 205
Case study 19.2 Reflection: enabling student progress 206
Supporting students throughout and beyond the academic year 207
Summary 207
20 Navigating Practice: Challenges and Opportunities 208
Introduction 208
Reflecting on the issues 208
What are 'wicked issues? 209
The context 211
Towards a new approach 215
Conclusion 219
21 Concluding Comments 221
References 223
Index 235

Rezensionen

"In a nutshell this book is dedicated...to a range of Community
Practitioners and delves into issues related to the facilitation of
specialist practice roles and development...arguments and
discussions are presented clearly and effectively with supportive
evidence."

Nurse Education Today

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2008
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Ausbildung u. Perspektiven i. d. Krankenpflege • Authors • Book • books • Community • Courses • delivering • District • facilitative • First • Knowledge • Krankenpflege • many • Medizinische Grundversorgung, Praxis • Mentor • Mentors • Mentorship • needs • New • nurses • nursing • Nursing Education & Professional Development • Practice • Primary Care Nursing & Practice Nursing • provide • Role • Specialist • specialist practitioner • students • vast
• ISBN-10: 0-470-68026-1 / 0470680261
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-68026-1 / 9780470680261