Mentors' competence in mentoring nursing students in clinical practice: Detecting profiles to enhance mentoring practices

Kristina Mikkonen; Marco Tomietto; Anna‐Maria Tuomikoski; Boris Miha Kaučič; Olga Riklikiene; Flores Vizcaya‐Moreno; Rosa M. Pérez‐Cañaveras; Bojana Filej; Giedre Baltinaite; Giancarlo Cicolini; Maria Kääriäinen

doi:10.1002/nop2.1103

Mentors' competence in mentoring nursing students in clinical practice: Detecting profiles to enhance mentoring practices

Kristina Mikkonen^*, Marco Tomietto, Anna‐Maria Tuomikoski, Boris Miha Kaučič, Olga Riklikiene, Flores Vizcaya‐Moreno, Rosa M. Pérez‐Cañaveras, Bojana Filej, Giedre Baltinaite, Giancarlo Cicolini, Maria Kääriäinen

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Aims: To describe the mentoring competence of clinical practice nurse mentors and identify different mentor profiles. Design: Cross-sectional research design, secondary analysis. Methods: An international, cross-sectional study design was performed in five European countries. A total of 1 604 mentors from 33 healthcare organizations participated in the study between 2016–2019. The Mentors' Competence Instrument (MCI), which includes seven sub-dimensions and 44 items, was used to collect data. K-means cluster and binary regression analyses were performed to detect mentor profiles and determine how various factors affect competence, respectively. Results: The K-means cluster analysis identified three distinct profiles: A (n = 926); B (n = 566); and C (n = 85). The profiles showed significantly different values (p <.001) across all seven areas of mentoring competence. In comparison with the other profiles, nurses in profile A were older, had more work experience and were more probably to have completed mentoring-specific training.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	593-603
Number of pages	11
Journal	Nursing Open
Volume	9
Issue number	1
Early online date	2 Nov 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.1103
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2022
Externally published	Yes

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clinical practice
competence
mentor
mentoring
nurse
student

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Mikkonen, K., Tomietto, M., Tuomikoski, AM., Kaučič, B. M., Riklikiene, O., Vizcaya‐Moreno, F., Pérez‐Cañaveras, R. M., Filej, B., Baltinaite, G., Cicolini, G., & Kääriäinen, M. (2022). Mentors' competence in mentoring nursing students in clinical practice: Detecting profiles to enhance mentoring practices. Nursing Open, 9(1), 593-603. https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.1103

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