How mentorship affects the transition from student to qualified midwife

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 eighth article Emma Walker and Joyce Marshall consider how mentorship affects the transition from student to newly qualified midwife.