Sue Woodward is Head of Clinical Education at Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London, UK. Sam Bassett is Lead Midwife for Education at Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, King's College London, London, UK

• 1. The Purposes and Nature of Assessment and Clinical Assessment2. Responsibility and Accountability Surrounding Clinical Assessment3. What do we Assess?4. How do we Assess?5. Conducting Defensible and Fair Assessments6. Assessment as a Process to Support Learning7. Monitoring Progress, Managing Feedback and making Assessment Decisions8. Clinical Learning Environment as a Setting for Learning and Professional Development9. Learning through Clinical Practice-Unearthing Meaning from ExperienceAppendix1: Declaration of Good Health and Good Character in Support of an Application for Admission to a Part of the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s Professional Register2: Sample Unit With Its Elements and One Element of Competence With Its Associated Performance Criteria3: Skills Checklist4: Professional Behaviours Inventory

Reviews of the previous edition:‘Easy to read and understand and covers all aspects of assessment, supervision and support in clinical practice … this is a keeper.’ --Practising Nurse‘This is a very useful and informative book to use when undertaking your mentorship course, lots of information and written clearly.’ -PEP nurse