Mentorship: an international perspective.

This paper is an account of a project funded by the European Union as a Leonardo da Vinici pilot project which aimed to produce a framework for a programme which prepares qualified nurses for their role as mentor of the student nurse. Representatives from universities in Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Poland, Portugal and the United Kingdom were the partner countries. The project was developed through the establishment of a series of common meetings sequentially held in each of the partner countries.

Clinical supervision - factors defined by nurses as influential upon the development of competence and skills in supervision.

The aim of this study was to describe factors defined by nurses as influential upon the development of competence and skills in supervision. Although clinical supervision has been widely studied and described during the last decade, influential factors regarding the development of supervisory competence, as defined by clinical supervisors themselves, is little documented. Focus group interviews were analysed using methods of qualitative content analysis as described by Kvale.