Educational Intervention on Mentoring Improves, Competence, Confidence, and Readiness for Practice in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetists

UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)

Hanna Greene (Creator)

Institution

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )

Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/

Advisor

Vadim Korogoda

Abstract: Background: Student Registered Nurse Anesthetists (SRNAs) face significant personal and professional stressors during their nurse anesthesia program. The literature has demonstrated strong peer mentorship programs can help lessen stress, increase confidence, and enhance a student’s academic performance. Purpose: To provide an early education session which reinforces the personal and educational benefits of mentorship, provides peer mentor training to help better prepare mentees, and, to assess the impact of this intervention on mentee’s clinical confidence, clinical performance, and patient outcomes. Methods: An education intervention was conducted with mentees and mentors, from the matriculation classes of 2025 and 2026, which focused on the importance of peer mentorship, provided tips to mentors to better prepare mentees for clinicals rotations. Student mentee perceptions were obtained using a survey, which was distributed following the initiation of their clinical rotations. The survey assessed the mentees perception of how peer mentorship impacted their confidence and stress levels, their clinical preparedness, and patient interactions. Results: Thirty-eight out of forty students (95%) completed the survey. Most respondents either ‘strongly agreed’ or ‘agreed’ that mentors interactions provided them helpful guidance around communication practices with preceptors and surgical staff, improved their sense of clinical preparedness, and improved their confidence levels. Conclusions: Peer mentorship helps students feel better prepared as they transition into clinical rotations by decreasing stress levels, improving confidence, and sense of preparedness. Additional research is required to help maximize the type(s) and length of educational intervention(s) required to maximize this benefit, and to better define the timing, structure, and requirements of peer mentorship program.

Educational Intervention on Mentoring Improves, Competence, Confidence, and Readiness for Practice in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetists
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Language: English

Date: 2024

Keywords

Peer mentors, confidence, competence, clinical practice, patient outcomes, readiness, stress

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