You are a newly qualified Enrolled Nurse (EN), and you have been asked by a colleague to participate in a research project on mentoring student nurses. Your colleague is interested to learn more about...

You are a newly qualified Enrolled Nurse (EN), and you have been asked by a colleague to participate in a research project on mentoring student nurses.  Your colleague is interested to learn more about the relationship between mentoring and students’ stress levels during their work placement.  Additional areas of enquiry could include student nurses’ experience of learning through mentoring, and barriers to effective mentoring in clinical work placement settings.


Your colleague has asked you to help her with the project proposal and has given you a guide-sheet to start working on. Answer the questions on the following pages under each heading to begin the proposal process.



RESEARCH PROPOSAL
Q.1.
Develop a research question


Devise a working title for the project based on the outline your colleague gave you.  This could be in the form of a question or a statement.


Type the Research Question or Statement here:


Q.2.
Write a literature review


Your colleague needs you to review previous research examining mentoring practices for student nurses, and to write a literature review for the project proposal.  She gives you the names of four primary research studies which you are required to retrieve from a library database or Google Scholar as follows: