Midwifery basics mentorship: The role and responsibilities of a midwifery mentor.

The role and responsibilities of a midwifery mentor Users may access full items free of charge; copies of full text items generally can be reproduced, displayed or performed and given to third parties in any format or medium for personal research or study, educational or not­for­profit purposes without prior permission or charge, provided: • The authors, title and full bibliographic details is credited in any copy; • A hyperlink and/or URL is included for the original metadata page; and • The content is not changed in any way. Mentorship: is the fourteenth series of 'Midwifery basics' targeted at practising midwives. It aims to provide information to raise awareness of the impact of the work of midwives on student learning and ultimately on women's experience and encourage midwives to seek further information through a series of activities. In this first article Yvonne Jarvis and Joyce Marshall consider some of the key issues related to the role and responsibilities of the midwifery mentor in an overview of the mentoring role. These will be discussed in more detail in the series of articles that follows.