Nursing Student Mentoring. A Descriptive Review of Nurses Experiences.
Udoji, Ada (2021)
2021
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202103103133
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202103103133
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Nurses teach nursing students clinical skills during nursing student’s clinical practice in healthcare organizations. The purpose of this study was to describe the experiences of nurses on the mentoring of nursing students. This study aims at providing information based on researches about the experiences of nurses in mentoring of student nurses. The research question for this study was to discover what kind of experiences nurses have with respect to mentoring of student nurses during clinical practices.
The study was conducted using a descriptive literature review, a systematic literature search strategy implemented on the following electronic databases: EBSCOhost, MEDLINE, ERIC, CINHAL complete, Proquest central and Pubmed. The search was limited to peer review/scholarly articles and articles published from 2010-2020 in English language. The search words used included: nurses, nursing staff, nurse, experience*, or perspective* or view* or perception*, mentor* or preceptor* or supervis*. Ten papers were included after applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, thematic analysis was used to analyse data.
The review showed the following as contributory to mentor’s experience of mentoring nursing students: student preparedness an attitudes, collaboration and communication with educational institutions, collaboration and communication with colleagues and nursing department management, understanding of mentoring, reciprocity, mentoring positives, ambivalence, challenges of mentoring nursing student, encouragement and facilitating learning. The challenges experienced by nurses while mentoring students could be investigated by nursing schools through proper collaboration and adequate support from link teacher. The nursing department should consider looking into the challenges that arise from the department and nursing students could also support nurse mentors by being prepared and having a positive attitude to learning to make mentoring a rich and rewarding experience for all involved.
The study was conducted using a descriptive literature review, a systematic literature search strategy implemented on the following electronic databases: EBSCOhost, MEDLINE, ERIC, CINHAL complete, Proquest central and Pubmed. The search was limited to peer review/scholarly articles and articles published from 2010-2020 in English language. The search words used included: nurses, nursing staff, nurse, experience*, or perspective* or view* or perception*, mentor* or preceptor* or supervis*. Ten papers were included after applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, thematic analysis was used to analyse data.
The review showed the following as contributory to mentor’s experience of mentoring nursing students: student preparedness an attitudes, collaboration and communication with educational institutions, collaboration and communication with colleagues and nursing department management, understanding of mentoring, reciprocity, mentoring positives, ambivalence, challenges of mentoring nursing student, encouragement and facilitating learning. The challenges experienced by nurses while mentoring students could be investigated by nursing schools through proper collaboration and adequate support from link teacher. The nursing department should consider looking into the challenges that arise from the department and nursing students could also support nurse mentors by being prepared and having a positive attitude to learning to make mentoring a rich and rewarding experience for all involved.