Reflect for success: recommendations for mentors managing failing students

Br J Community Nurs. 2010 Dec;15(12):594-6. doi: 10.12968/bjcn.2010.15.12.594.

Abstract

Failing a student nurse for not meeting clinical competency on a practice placement can be a distressing and traumatic event for both student and community nurse mentor. This paper describes how a reflective model can be used to support practitioners' to come to terms with the decision and action of failing a student and dealing with the aftermath of the final interview.

MeSH terms

  • Clinical Competence*
  • Community Health Nursing / education
  • Community Health Nursing / organization & administration
  • Decision Making
  • Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate
  • Education, Nursing, Continuing
  • Educational Measurement / methods*
  • Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
  • Humans
  • Knowledge*
  • Mentors* / education
  • Mentors* / psychology
  • Models, Educational
  • Models, Nursing
  • Remedial Teaching
  • Students, Nursing* / psychology
  • Thinking