Mentoring and Supervision in Healthcare [Paperback]

This authoritative and up-to-date book examines the knowledge base, skills and attitudes required for mentoring students on all healthcare profession courses, and learners.

The text explores theories and research on mentoring by analysing their strengths and weaknesses. It also draws upon standards and competencies for mentors and examines how they can be applied to day-to-day mentoring and clinical practice activities. By adopting an analytical and interactive style, the book emphasizes the application of theories and principles to various clinical settings.

Key features include:

" Comprehensive content - examines learning styles; different learning environments; evidence-based care; principles of assessment; the mentor's leadership, evaluation of teaching

" Practice-oriented - case studies offer links to 'real-life' and the chapters provide effective frameworks for mentoring in practice

" Interactive - activities and think points encourage the reader to explore and apply concepts to their practice and roles

" Up-to-date - firmly based on current knowledge in the field.

Mentoring and Supervision in Healthcare is an essential textbook for mentor preparation programmes in nursing, midwifery and related healthcare professions. It aims to support learning and assessment of competencies, as well as continuing professional development for all healthcare professionals.

Neil Gopee is a senior lecturer in the Department of Nursing, Midwifery and Healthcare at Coventry University. His teaching and research is primarily focused on mentorship, facilitating continuing learning and management of care.

I am currently employed as a senior lecturer in Health and Life Sciences at Coventry University, and have until very recently also worked as Associate lecturer for the Open University. My role as external examiner at various Higher Education Institutions in my subject areas has also broadened my insights into the two subject areas that I teach and research: (1) learning, teaching and assessment (under- and post-graduate), and (2) management and leadership in healthcare settings.

I qualified in 'Adult Nursing' in the first place and worked in general surgical nursing for a year before moving on to complete the ‘registered mental health nurse’ course. Through my nursing career, a combination of clinical experiences in primary care and general intensive care nursing was also supplemented by attendance at numerous professional development short and long courses, including various workshops on writing for publication and completing my doctorate in continuing professional education at Warwick University.

My first peer-reviewed article was published in 1991 based on my then nurse tutor role. The 1990s when nurse education programmes became a part of university provision, this further opened up authoring opportunities, and I negotiated with Alison Poyner, commissioning editor at SAGE publications, to write the Mentoring and Supervision in Healthcare book, the first edition of which was published in 2007. Along the way, I also worked with SAGE publications to write Leadership and Management in Healthcare and Practice Teaching in Healthcare textbooks. I have also had chapters published in edited books, and a range of peer-reviewed articles.