Division of Practice Learning and Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University Campus Suffolk, Neptune Quay, Ipswich, Suffolk IP4 1QJ, UK.
Nurse Educ Pract. 2014 Jan;14(1):43-8. doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2013.04.015. Epub 2013 May 30.
This paper presents the findings of a small scale evaluation examining nursing and midwifery mentors and nursing lecturers perceptions of the Nursing and Midwifery Council 'sign off' mentor role (NMC, 2008). For this evaluation 114 new sign off mentors, 37 preparation for mentorship students and 13 nursing and midwifery lecturers within a Higher Education Institute (HEI) in the United Kingdom participated in the evaluation project. Nursing and midwifery students were not included in this initial evaluation. The initial findings suggested that all participants viewed the introduction of sign off mentors positively; offering a more robust mechanism for ensuring students were competent, helped to protect the public, and offered an increased level of support for students themselves. Concerns were raised about varying levels of support available for sign off mentors and some Stage 2 mentors' abilities to assess competence. Several participants felt the 1 h protected time per week per final placement student would be difficult to implement, whilst anxieties were also expressed about levels of responsibility for ensuring fitness to practice alongside concern that some mentors may leave sign off mentors to manage and identify under-achieving students.
本文介绍了一项小规模评估的结果，该评估旨在考察护理和助产学导师以及护理讲师对护理和助产学委员会“认可”导师角色（NMC，2008）的看法。在这项评估中，英国一所高等教育机构（HEI）的 114 名新认可导师、37 名准备接受指导的学生和 13 名护理和助产学讲师参与了评估项目。护理和助产学学生未包括在此次初步评估中。初步结果表明，所有参与者都对认可导师的引入持积极态度；为确保学生具备能力提供了更有力的机制，有助于保护公众，并为学生本身提供了更高水平的支持。人们对认可导师可用的支持水平存在担忧，以及一些第二阶段导师评估能力的担忧。一些参与者认为，每周为每个最后实习学生提供 1 小时的保护时间将难以实施，同时也对确保胜任实践的责任水平表示担忧，以及一些导师可能会将管理和识别表现不佳的学生的责任交给认可导师。
