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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Nursing Research and Practice Volume 2012, Article ID 812542, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2012/812542 Research Article The Concerns of Competent Novices during a Mentoring Year Susan Lennox,1 Annemarie Jutel,1 and Maralyn Foureur2 1 Graduate School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 7625, Wellington 6140, New Zealand 2 Centre for Midwifery, Child and Family Health, Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology, Sydney, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia Correspondence should be addressed to Susan Lennox, suelennox@skybluehouse.co.nz Received 12 December 2011; Revised 17 March 2012; Accepted 3 April 2012 Academic Editor: Linda Ferguson Copyright © 2012 Susan Lennox et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In an innovative group mentoring approach, four experienced midwives mentored four new graduates during their first year of practice. The new graduates were in practice as case-loading registered midwives having completed a three year Bachelor of Midwifery degree. Detailed data about the new graduates’ concerns were collected throughout the year of the mentoring project. A range of practice areas—administrative, working environment, professional culture, clinical issues and the mentor group itself— were prominent issues. New graduates were concerned about their own professional development and about relationships with others particularly relationships within the hospital. Technical questions focussed more on craft knowledge that develops through experience than on clinical skills or knowledge. Identif