Empowering the professionalization of nurses through mentorship: Implementation of the CLES framework in an international project

Abstract

This chapter explores the process, outcomes and influences of an International Research and Developmental project entitled ‘Empowering the Professionalization of Nurses through Mentorship-EmpNURS’ which took place in four relatively new European Union (EU) countries in 2010-2013. The project was for the benefit of nurse educators and students, along with nurses in practice by providing them with an opportunity to experience a learning mentorship model. This chapter discusses the students’ perceptions of their clinical learning, explored using the CLES scale, and the development process and content of the EmpNURS mentorship programme are explained. The mentorship programme is recommended to equip nurses and other healthcare professionals for their role as mentor to students in clinical learning environment.