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The nurse mentor is important in the personal and professional development of undergraduate nurses, ensuring that nursing students are competent and well prepared for practice at the point of registration. The importance of a rigorous evidence base for mentors and fellow nurse educators to use to inform education and practice should not be overlooked. This article seeks to expand this knowledge base and acquire research data that is relevant, topical and in line with the latest thinking to support best practice in nurse mentorship and nursing student education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on Betsi Cadwaladyr (1789–1860). Topics include Elisabeth ‘Betsi' Cadwaladyr is best known for the role she played while serving in the Crimean War (1853–1856) and is regarded as a role model for fighting to improve patients' clinical care and living conditions; and her autobiographer Jane Williams Ysgafell (1857) described Betsi as having a strict, moral sense with large doses of both independence and spontaneity.

Presents the views of a ward sister on how her experiences gave her the drive and determination to seek research-based solutions to some of the conditions that she encountered. Difficult problems encountered as a ward sister; Her role as a nurse; Decision to use a magnitude ratio scale as a means of designing an instrument; Opinion about a researcher.