title: Developing the role of the mentor in post basic nurse education: East Midlands NHS confederation area.
abstract: Mentors in health visiting, district nursing and school nursing are an important asset to training the next generation of specialist practitioners. Various recent government policies have stressed the need for family-centred public health approaches to practice. A questionnaire in the form of a SWOT analysis was used to collect qualitative data from 35 Community Practice Teachers (CPTs) across Southern Derbyshire, Nottingham, and Nottinghamshire. The results showed that CPTs required an updating prog ramme in public health and allied studies in order to operate in their public health role. A report was compiled which set the framework for securing funding of pound15000.00 from the East Midland Workforce Confederation. The model developed, enabled mentors to participate in a range of training initiatives.
authors.affiliation: University of Derby.
authors.forename: Pauline
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Byers