| 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 |