Mentorship in Community Nursing: Challenges and Opportunities

Mentorship in Community Nursing is designed to meet the needs of nurses undertaking the mentor role for specialist practitioner students in community settings. There are many new courses being developed for mentors and this is one of the first books to address the specialist practitioner mentor’s learning needs.

The skills and knowledge required of the mentor are vast and in this book the authors provide guidance on delivering supportive, facilitative teaching and learning strategies. Eight specialist areas of community practice are covered: district nursing, health visiting, school nursing children’s community nursing, community mental health nursing and occupational health nursing. Wherever possible case studies have been used to illustrate how theories and concepts work in practice and are based on real-life experiences of the contributors.

Key Features:

• A supporting text for the many new mentorship courses


• An extremely valuable source of learning and reference for all those involved in teaching specialist community practitioners


• Considers practice-based dilemmas alongside basic principles