The introduction of mentorship to Project 2000 in Wales

Neary, Mary RMN, RNMH, RGN, RCNT, RNT, CertEd, BEd(Hons)
Phillips, Robyn RGN, RM, MEd, PECA EA
Davies, Brian BSc, MA(Ed)

Date of acceptance: February 2 1996.
Mary Neary RMN, RNMH, RGN, RCNT, RNT, CertEd, BEd(Hons), is PGCE/CertEd Course Coordinator; Robyn Phillips RGN, RM, MEd, PECA EA, is Lecturer/Researcher; and Brian Davies BSc, MA(Ed), is Professor of Education, School of Education, University of Wales, Cardiff.
This article has been subject to double-blind review.

Nursing Standard 10(25):p 37-39, March 13, 1996.

This study focused upon the introduction of mentors in the Common Foundation Programme (CFP) of Project 2000 (UKCC (1986)) in Wales.It was commissioned by the Department of Health Research and Development Division on behalf of the Welsh Office Nursing Division. The study was policy oriented and its purpose was to inform future policy decision making through an analysis of the implementation of current policies for pre-registration education. The full title of our research project, 'The practitioner teacher: a study in the introduction of mentors in the pre-registration nurse education programme', implied that a clinically-based nurse practitioner with a designated teaching remit, fulfils a particular role (that of mentor) in the pre-registration nurse education programme. It was the nature, scope and impact of this mentor role during the initial implementation period of the CFP of Project 2000 in Wales to which this study addressed itself.