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Mentors' competence in mentoring nursing students in clinical practice: Detecting profiles to enhance mentoring
Kristina Mikkonen1, Marco Tomietto1, Anna-Maria Tuomikoski1,2
1Research Unit of Nursing Science and Health Management, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
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.
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