Mentoring, Preceptorship and Clinical Supervision A Guide to Professional Roles in Clinical Practice

by Morton Cooper, Alison; Palmer, Anne

• ISBN13: 9780632049677
• ISBN10: 0632049677
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-21
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Newly qualified nurses often experience difficulties moving from the role of student to qualified nurse. It has been formally recognized that these nurses require a support network to enable them to make this transition smoothly. Preceptorship is an important part of the UKCC's post-registration education and practice proposals. They recommend a period of 4 months under the guidance of a preceptor to enable newly appointed practitioners to achieve confidence within practice.This new edition covers the essential information required to provide learning and support for newly qualified staff. It provides an excellent introduction that is current, relevant and comprehensive in its coverage. Additions to this new edition include coverage of clinical supervision and its relationship to mentoring and preceptorship. This text describes in detail the three main support roles: clinical supervision, mentoring, and preceptorship. These roles are illustrated throughout by case studies.

Author Biography

Alison Morton-Cooper has had many years of experience in the field of health care, in health services journalism, as a health educator and latterly as a senior nurse and lecturer in continuing professional education. Her MEd and PhD in Continuing Education from the University of Warwick, England, led to substantive research as to the ways health professionals learn best from practice. Last but not least, she is the mother of a teenage son diagnosed as having high functioning autism, and she is an experienced advocate for families affected by autism.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Professor Malcolm Tight
Preface	xi
Acknowledgements	xiv
The Context of Health Care Work	1	(34)
Trust and dependence in health care organisations	1	(3)
The emerging crisis of trust in public services	4	(8)
Why learning support is necessary	12	(20)
References	32	(3)
Mentoring in Practice	35	(54)
Introduction	35	(1)
What is mentoring?	36	(4)
The classical mentor	40	(5)
Mentor language, functions and organisational culture	45	(7)
Choice and mentoring stages	52	(3)
Attributes, qualities and abilities of an effective mentor	55	(7)
Benefits and limitations of mentoring	62	(3)
Formal mentoring: devising a mentor programme	65	(10)
Reflection: mentoring case studies	75	(8)
References	83	(6)
Becoming Accountable: Preceptorship in Clinical Practice	89	(46)
Introduction	89	(4)
Preceptorship in nursing via action research	93	(5)
Key features of the preceptorship model employed	98	(3)
Preceptorship and `vocabularies of emotion'	101	(12)
Accountability and the issue of `standards'	113	(4)
The support paradox	117	(6)
Contemplating the rubble: emotions and the research process	123	(4)
The future of preceptorship policy: could it become a statutory requirement?	127	(2)
Appendix: The Socratic method	129	(1)
References	130	(3)
Further reading	133	(2)
Clinical Supervision: Making the Connections	135	(52)
Introduction	135	(2)
Reflections of the past	137	(2)
Decoding supervision and clinical supervision	139	(4)
The current context of clinical supervision	143	(8)
Making clinical supervision work in practice	151	(4)
Learning in practice and clinical supervision	155	(7)
Supervision and support for the student	162	(6)
Clinical supervision for student	168	(4)
Clinical supervision in practice: some common questions	172	(7)
References	179	(8)
Providing a Professional Support Framework	187	(32)
Introduction	187	(1)
The confusion in roles	187	(7)
Comparisons between mentoring, preceptorship and clinical supervision	194	(6)
Recognising the need for a professional support framework	200	(5)
Professional support and development framework	205	(3)
A basis for collaborative partnership	208	(3)
Issues of quality in professional support: an overview of ethical concepts	211	(2)
Looking forward	213	(2)
References	215	(4)
Postscript	219	(4)
Brigid Proctor
Index	223