title: Nurse Education Tomorrow Conference theme paper--section D. The student experience: adult learning and mentorship revisited.
abstract: Nursing education is being cited frequently as an example of adult education. Mentorship is also a concept that has been adopted as an approach to enhancing learning in the clinical setting. This paper examines, critically, the notions of adult learning, andragogy and mentorship and explores their relationship to modern nursing educational practice.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Burnard
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D007858:Learning; D008611:Mentors; D011231:Preceptorship