Nurse mentors for preregistration house officers.
Newly qualified junior doctors experience 'reality shock' when they start work on the wards. This article describes the development of a nurse mentorship scheme which uses the skills and expertise of senior ward nurses to help them through this transition. It has proved to be both popular and successful.
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