SUPPORTING LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT. My experience of mentoring and assessing nursing students took place in demanding clinical area, which provides high dependency and critical care to children.

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Module TITLE                            :          Supporting Learning and Assessment

                                                                                        Practice 

Module NO                                  :           GM6411

Intake                                           :                AO1

Assignment Title                  :       Critically reflective

                                                                                   account of my experiece of

                                                                                   mentoring and assessing a

                                                                                      student in PRACTICE.

MODULE CO-ORDINATOR       :        LOUISE  HUNT

Contents   Page NO                : 

  • 1-Introduction.  

  • 2 -  Knowledge and uderstanding of          

                                                                                   mentoring and assessing role.

  • 3-4 - EVALUTION of the learning

                                                                                    environment in the practice

                                                                                        setting.

  • 5-critical aprprausal of own

                                                                                   perfomance as a mentor and

                                                                                    asseeeor.

  •  6-Evidence of knowledge and

                                                                                     application of relevant theories.

  •   7-CONCLUSION.
  •   8- appendix-1.
  •    9-refrences. 

Student Name                           :       Kamlesh Jaiswar

 Student No                                :        JAI05333730

Date of

Submission                                  :       5th dec 2008. 

Word Count                              :        2000.             

SUPPORTING LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT IN

PRACTICE

      REFLECCTIVE ACCOUNT OF EXPERIENCE OF                                                                                                  MENTORING AND ASSESSESSING A STUDENT IN PRACTICE

Clinical placements for nursing students, is often regarded as the most useful aspect of the nursing course with experienced and supportive nurses to help them develop their practical nursing skills promoting professional awareness and growth (Cope et al 2000).

This assignment will explore the role of the mentor and effect of the role models have on the mentor student relationship. It will also examine the learning environment and its influence upon the way in which students learn. It will critically analyse and reflect on my performance as mentor and assessor incorporating evidence of Knowledge and application of the theories to practice. Concluding with, summarising the main point of the assignment and application to the future practice.

Reflection is the process of learning through experience gaining new insights, assisting with changes in perceptions and developing oneself and future practice (Boyd and Fales 1983). I will be using Gibbs model of reflection (1988) please (appendix1) to structure this assignment. It consists of six sequential steps discussing the experience, examining thoughts and feeling, evaluating and analysing the experience, drawing upon conclusions for future practice.

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My experience of mentoring and assessing nursing students took place in demanding clinical area, which provides high dependency and critical care to children. It offers the student the opportunity to develop technical clinical skill with in a challenging nursing environment.

The English National and Department of health (2001b) define mentorship as ‘…the role of the nurse who facilitates learning and supervises and assess students in the practical setting’. As a mentor I have a duty and responsibility to ensure this is provided through the use of my professional judgement as I am accountable for the action of students and ...

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