title: Development of learning facilitation roles for unregistered practitioners.
abstract: This article describes how unregistered practitioners, such as healthcare assistants and community-based mental health workers, can contribute to the learning, support and development of pre-registration nursing students in clinical practice. It presents the results of an unregistered practitioner co-mentoring scheme piloted in a mental health trust, and demonstrates its benefits for nursing students, unregistered practitioners and nurse mentors. The scheme delivers training and supervision for unregistered practitioners who are starting a formal role in clinical learning. It aims to recognise and develop the contribution of unregistered practitioners to student learning, and to enhance the learning environments in which nursing students train.
authors.affiliation: Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, Bristol, England.
authors.forename: Ben
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Padfield
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Knowles
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008611:Mentors; D010865:Pilot Projects; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: Healthcare assistants; mental health services; mentoring; nurse education; nursing students; practice development; staff development; unregistered practitioners