No.

Author(s)

Year

Title

Design

Reason for Exclusion

1

AltuntasSerap

2011

Mentorship relations among academician nurses in Turkey: An assessment from the viewpoints of mentors and mentees

Quantitative

Methodology

2

Andrea Cropper

2000

Mentoring as an inclusive device for the excluded: Black students’ experience of a mentoring scheme, Social Work Education

Expert opinion

Not a study

3

Andrews G J, Brodie D A., Andrews J P., Hillan E, Thomas G, Wong J. and Rixon

2006

Professional roles and communications in clinical placements: A qualitative study of nursing students’ perceptions and some models for practice

Qualitative

Focused on general clinical experience

4

Andrews, M., & Chilton, F.

2000

Student and mentor perceptions of mentoring effectiveness

Quantintative

methodology

5

Burnard P.

1990

The student experience adult learning and mentorship revisited

Expert paper

6

Chapman Rose and Orb Angelica,

2001

Coping strategies in clinical practice: The nursing students’ lived experience

qualitative

Focused on students coping with demands of clinical placement rather than mentorship

7

Chesser-Smyth Patricia A.

2005

The lived experiences of general student nurseson their first clinical placement: A phenomenological study

Qualitative

Focused on general clinical placement experience and does not look at mentorship

8

Coates, V E and Gormley, E

1997

Learning the practice of nursing: views about preceptorship

Mixed method

Methodology and the main focus was the views of the precptors

9

Earnshaw Graham

1995

Mentorship; student’s views

Qualitative

Method of data collection not very clear (Survey)

10

Gidman J, McIntosh A, Melling K and Smith D

2011

Student perceptions of support in practice

Mixed method

Explored general support from the clinical area and not the mentor

11

Gray M.A. and Smith L.N

2000

The qualities of an effective mentor from the student nurse’s perspective: findings from a longitudinal qualitative study

Focused on qualities of a mentor

12

Huybrecht S., Loeckx W., Quaeyhaegens Y, De Tobel D and Mistiaen

2011

Mentoring in nursing education: Perceived characteristics of mentors and the consequences of mentorship

Questionnaire survey

Focused on the mentors and not students

13

Midgley K.

2006

Pre-registration student nurses p, erception of the hospital-learning environment during clinical placements

quantitative

The focus was on general learning environment in clinical setting

14

Mousa Alavi, Khosrow Tavakol, Mahdi Behzadnejad and Khalil Mahdi Zadeh

2008

Iranian nurse students’ experiences of relationships with nurses in clinical setting

Qualitative

The focus was on general clinical experience and not mentorship/preceptorship

15

Myall M, Levett-Jones T and Lathlean J

2008

Mentorship in contemporary practice: the experiences of nursing students and practice mentors

Mixed method

Methodology

16

Nabolsia M., Zumotb A., Wardamc L. and Abu-Moghlid F

2012

The experience of Jordanian nursing students in their clinical practice

Quantitative

Methodology

17

Ohrling K. and Hallberg IR.

2001

The meaning of preceptor: nurses’ lived experience of being a preceptor.

Qualitative

Focused on preceptors and not students