A study to determine the effect of Mentoring on developing nursing competencies among the newly joined staff nurses in a selected private hospital in Kolkata.

Usha Mallick

Volume : X, Issue : V, May - 2020

A study to determine the effect of Mentoring on developing nursing competencies among the newly joined staff nurses in a selected private hospital in Kolkata.

Usha Mallick

Abstract :

“Mentoring is a reciprocal and collaborative learning relationship between two, sometimes more, individuals with mutual goals and shared accountability for the outcomes and success of the relationship.” A quasi experimental research study was under taken to compare the nursing competency score between experimental and control group after one month. Purposive sampling technique was used .Total sample was 40. Data was collected by observation checklist .Tool was validated by five experts and reliability was tasted by inter rater reliability method. .The result revealed that majority of the samples 36(90%) belongs to 21–23 years of age group .Majority of the samples 32(80%) are female. Data revealed that post test competencies score of experimental group is higher than the mean of post test competencies score of control group. The ‘t’ value was found statistically significant as evident from ‘t’ value of 2.74 for df 38 at 0.01 level of significance.