| No. | Author | Year | Journal | Title | Setting | Design | Number of participants |
| 1 | Cahill, H.A. | 1996 | Journal of Advanced Nursing | A Qualitative analysis of students’ experiences of mentorship | Yorkshire district hospital, UK | Qualitative- Focus Group Discussions | 23 3rd year student nurses |
| 2 | Higgins, A. and McCarthy, M. | 2005 | Nurse Education in practice | Psychiatric nursing students’ experiences of having a mentor during their first practice placement: an Irish perspective | Trinity college, Dublin, Ireland | Qualitative-semi structured interview guide | 6 first year psychiatric student nurses |
| 3 | Hughes, A.J. and Fraser, M.D. | 2011 | Midwifery | There are guiding hands and there are controlling hands: student midwives’ experiences of mentorship n UK | University of Nottingham, UK | Focus Group Discussions | 58 1st, 2nd and 3rd year female student midwives |
| 4 | Licquirish, S. and Seibold, C. | 2008 | Midwifery | Bachelor of Midwifery students’ experiences of achieving competences; the role of the midwifery preceptor | Australian Catholic University, Victoria | Grounded theory-in-depth interviews | 8 3rd year Midwifery students |
| 5 | Ohrling, K. and Hallberg, I.R. | 2000 | International Journal of Nursing Studies | Student nurses’ lived experience of preceptorship. Part 1-in relation to learning | Sweden | Phenomenology- in-depth Interview | 17 3rd year nursing students |
| 6 | Ohrling, K. and Hallberg, I.R. | 2000 | International Journal of Nursing Studies | Student nurses’ lived experience of preceptorship. Part 2-the preceptor-preceptee relationship | Northern College of Nursing in Northern Sweden | Phenomenology- in-depth Interview | 17 3rd year nursing students |
| 7 | Watson, N.A. | 1999 | Journal of Advanced Nursing | Mentoring today-the students’ views. An investigative case study of pre-registration nursing students’ experiences and perceptions of mentoring in one theory/practice module of the common foundation programme on a project 2000 | DeMontfort University, Charles Frear Campus, UK | Qualitative- phenomenology- semi structured interview guide | 35 nursing student 15 mentors |