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Assessment of Mentorship Competencies among Nurse Mentors at Port Said Healthcare Authority Hospitals

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Last updated: 24 Dec 2024

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Nursing Administration

Abstract

Background: Mentorship in nursing is a therapeutic relationship that exists between experienced nurses and less experienced nurses to help them gain more knowledge or experience in the profession. Competent nurse mentors aid in facilitating role transitions, improving job satisfaction, enhancing patient care, and decreasing nursing turnover. Aim: The present study aimed to; assess mentorship competencies of nurse mentors at Port Said Healthcare Authority hospitals. Subjects and Method: Design: a descriptive design was used. Setting: the study conducted at seven Healthcare Authority hospitals in Port Said Governorate. Subjects: included a purposive sample of 30 nurse mentors. Tools: Three tools used for data collection consisted of; Mentor knowledge questionnaire, Mentor Competencies Instrument (MCI), and Nurse mentor performance Assessment. The Results: 63.3% of nurse mentors had unsatisfactory knowledge, 37.3% of them had satisfactory knowledge with mean ±SD= 25.0±6.2. Also, 63.3% of them had low mentorship competencies, 23.3% had moderate competencies, 13.3% of them had high competencies with mean ±SD= 37.1 ±4.1. 70% of them had unsatisfactory performance, 30% of them had with mean ±SD= 49.7±6.9. Conclusion: The most of the studied nurse mentors had low mentorship competencies. Recommendations: conduct an educational program about nursing mentorship competencies to the different stages of nursing education to foster the continued growth and development of nurse mentors and nurse students. Also, it is recommended to increase the number of nurse mentors in clinical training settings.

DOI

10.21608/pssjn.2024.251107.1293

Keywords

competencies, mentorship, Mentors, Nursing Education, Nursing students, performance

Authors

First Name

Heba

Last Name

Hagrass

MiddleName

Moussa

Affiliation

Nursing Administration department, Faculty of Nursing - Port Said University, Port Said, Egypt

Email

heba.moussa@nur.psu.edu.eg

City

Portsaid

Orcid

0000-0002-9562-0186

First Name

Sanaa

Last Name

Ibrahim

MiddleName

Abdel-Azeem

Affiliation

Nursing Administration department, Faculty of Nursing - Port Said University, Port Said, Egypt

Email

sanaaahmed4@gmail.com

City

Belkas

Orcid

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First Name

Rasha

Last Name

Anany

MiddleName

Ibrahim

Affiliation

Nursing Administration department, Faculty of Nursing - Port Said University, Port Said, Egypt

Email

rashamoheb@gmail.com

City

port said

Orcid

-

First Name

Heba

Last Name

El-Gazar

MiddleName

E.

Affiliation

Nursing Administration department, Faculty of Nursing - Port Said University, Port Said, Egypt

Email

heba.emad@nur.psu.edu.eg

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-

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Volume

11

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

48277

Issue Date

2024-06-01

Receive Date

2023-12-10

Publish Date

2024-06-30

Page Start

318

Page End

340

Print ISSN

2356-8658

Online ISSN

2682-3241

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362,847

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866

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Publication Title

Port Said Scientific Journal of Nursing

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Assessment of Mentorship Competencies among Nurse Mentors at Port Said Healthcare Authority Hospitals

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Created At

24 Dec 2024