Abstract The purpose of this study was to describe and explain nurse mentors’ competence in mentoring nursing students and to evaluate the effects of an educational intervention on nurse mentors’ competence in mentoring. The purpose was to also evaluate the reliability of an instrument measuring competence in mentoring nursing students. The study aimed to develop new knowledge on nurse mentors’ competence that can be used to improve mentoring education. This study included four phases. In the first phase, nurse mentors’ experiences of mentoring nursing students were described using a systematic review. Data were collected from seven electronic databases and were selected by titles, abstracts and full-texts. The quality of the included studies (n=21) was evaluated and the Joanna Briggs Institute Qualitative Assessment and Review Instrument (JBI-QARI) extraction tool was used to extract and synthesize the studies. In the second phase, the psychometric properties of Mentor Competence Instrument (MCI) were tested. Data were collected from mentors (n=3355) at five university hospitals in Finland using an electronic version of the MCI. The construct validity and reliability of the instrument were tested using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and Cronbach’s alpha. In the third phase, mentors’ level of competence in mentoring and distinct mentor profiles were identified using a cross-sectional study. The same data were used as in the second phase of this study and analyzed using multivariate statistical methods. In the fourth phase, the effect of mentoring education on nurse mentors’ competence in mentoring nursing students was evaluated using a quasi-experimental study. Data were collected from nurses (n=150) using the MCI instrument before and after mentoring education. Data were analyzed using statistical methods. According to the systematic review, nurse mentors' competence in mentoring nursing students contained eight competence areas. The MCI instrument exhibited acceptable psychometric properties. Nurse mentors evaluated their level of competence in various categories from satisfactory to good. Three distinct profiles of mentor competence were identified from skilled developer, competent adapter and beginner. Mentoring education had an effect on mentoring competence. / Tiivistelmä Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli kuvata ja selittää sairaanhoitajien opiskelijaohjausosaamista sekä arvioida ohjaajakoulutuksen vaikutuksia sairaanhoitajien opiskelijaohjausosaamiseen. Lisäksi tarkoituksena oli arvioida opiskelijaohjausosaamisen mittarin luotettavuutta. Tavoitteena oli vahvistaa hoitotieteen tietoperustaa ja tuottaa uutta tietoa opiskelijaohjaajien osaamisesta ohjaajakoulutuksen kehittämiseksi. Tutkimus oli nelivaiheinen. Ensimmäisessä vaiheessa kuvailtiin järjestelmällisen katsauksen avulla sairaanhoitajien kokemuksia opiskelijoiden ohjaamisessa tarvittavasta osaamisesta ammattitaitoa edistävän harjoittelun aikana. Tiedonhaku toteutettiin seitsemästä tietokannasta. Aineisto valittiin otsikoiden, tiivistelmien ja koko tekstien perusteella. Mukaan otettujen alkuperäistutkimusten (n=21) laatu arvioitiin sekä tulosten yhdistämisessä ja analyysissä käytettiin apuna Joanna Briggs Instituutin JBI-QARI -uuttamismenetelmää. Toisessa vaiheessa arvioitiin opiskelijaohjausosaamista arvioivan mittarin luotettavuutta. Aineisto kerättiin poikkileikkaustutkimuksena Suomen viidessä yliopistollisessa sairaalassa työskenteleviltä sairaanhoitajilta (n=3355) sähköisesti opiskelijaohjausosaamisen mittarilla. Mittarin rakennevaliditeettia arvioitiin eksploratiivisella faktorianalyysillä ja sisäistä johdonmukaisuutta Cronbachin Alfa -kertoimella. Kolmannessa vaiheessa kuvattiin sairaanhoitajien opiskelijaohjausosaamisen tasoa ja selitettiin profiileita poikkileikkaustutkimuksella. Aineisto oli sama kuin tutkimuksen toisessa vaiheessa. Aineisto analysoitiin tilastollisilla monimuuttujamenetelmillä. Neljännessä vaiheessa arvioitiin ohjaajakoulutuksen vaikutuksia sairaanhoitajien opiskelijaohjausosaamiseen kvasikokeellisella tutkimusasetelmalla. Aineisto kerättiin sairaanhoitajilta (n=150) Opiskelijaohjausosaaminen -mittarilla ennen ja jälkeen koulutuksen. Aineisto analysoitiin tilastollisin menetelmin. Järjestelmällisen katsauksen mukaan sairaanhoitajien opiskelijaohjausosaaminen muodostui seitsemästä osaamisen alueesta. Opiskelijaohjausosaamisen mittarin psykometriset ominaisuudet todettiin hyviksi. Sairaanhoitajat arvioivat opiskelijaohjausosaamisen tason tyydyttäväksi tai hyväksi. Sairaanhoitajat profiloituivat ohjausosaamisensa osalta taitavaan kehittäjään, osaavaan soveltajaan ja aloittelijaan. Ohjaajakoulutus edisti ohjausosaamista.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:29:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Denise Bragotto.pdf: 686364 bytes, checksum: c864e50c5e17fcead2af47e125868d1f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-02-07 / The purpose of this work was to investigate mentor?s profiles and their influence on Brazilian writers literary production. Personal characteristics and blocks to literary production in writers with mentor and without mentor. The sample was composed of 37 Brazilian?s writers, both gender; ages rangins from 20-89 years coming from different socio-economic levels.The instrument were: inventory and interviews with the writers. Answers to the inventory were submited to content analysis and qualitative evaluation. The results showed that the mentor is the person who has professional ability, technical knowledge, creative spirit, high ethics and moral values, affectivity and does his work with pleasure. The mentor is the guider and behavior?s inspirator in the informal mentoring, and has influence on the style refinament, faciliting the comprehension of methods to the literary creation, technical excellence, encourages the mentee to take risks, to be open for new experiences and to believe in its potential. The mentor contributes to raise contact with mentee?s literary circle. The personal characteristics which mostly contributed to the literary production were: sensibility, own?s writing pleasure, technical knowledge, curiosity, persistence and the belief in its own potential. The internal blocks to literary production were: fear of exposing and critical attitude, economical trouble and related to publishing. / O trabalho investigou o perfil dos mentores e sua influ?ncia na produ??o liter?ria de escritores brasileiros, verificando as caracter?sticas pessoais e as barreiras ao processo de produ??o liter?ria de escritores com mentores e sem mentores. A amostra foi composta por 37 escritores brasileiros, de ambos os sexos, na faixa et?ria de 20 a 89 anos de v?rios n?veis s?cio-econ?micos. Os instrumentos foram: question?rio e entrevistas livres. As respostas ao question?rio foram submetidas ? an?lise de conte?do e avalia??o qualitativa. Os resultados mostraram que o mentor possui compet?ncia profissional, conhecimento t?cnico, esp?rito criativo, elevados valores ?ticos e morais, afetividade e realizam com prazer sua atividade. O mentor ? um orientador inspirador de conduta e exerce influ?ncia no refinamento do estilo, facilitando a compreens?o dos m?todos de cria??o liter?ria e na busca da excel?ncia t?cnica, encorajando o mentoreado a correr riscos, a abrir-se para o novo, incrementando a auto-estima e a ousadia e ampliando o contato com o meio liter?rio. As caracter?sticas pessoais que mais contribuem para o desenvolvimento da produ??o liter?ria s?o: sensibilidade, prazer pela atividade, conhecimento t?cnico, curiosidade, persist?ncia e a cren?a no pr?prio potencial. As barreiras ? produ??o liter?ria s?o: o medo de se expor e o senso cr?tico, as dificuldades econ?micas e as relativas ? publica??o.

My Diploma Thesis "Newly qualified teachers" is devoted to new teachers with less than 3 years of teaching experience after they graduated from accredited college and received a degree as a teacher. My focus is on the teachers in elementary schools. The goal of the theoretical part of my thesis is to collect technical information, opinions, ideas and knowledge from experts in the teaching profession in general, to characterize the new teacher's personality. In the few chapters I ponder possible fears, concerns, weaknesses and needs of the new teachers, and I also mention problematic field of the evaluation and self assessment of a new teacher. The content of the practical part of my thesis is exploratory inquiry using a method of survey. The goal of the questions and answers is to find out if the orientation of new teachers in elementary schools is functioning well with prepared orientation plan, and to identify and map out the problem areas that the new, inexperienced teachers feel in the beginning of their teaching carrier, and subsequently to detect and identify the new teachers' needs. I set preconditions for which I had the knowledge base from studying professional literature and from my many years of experience as an elementary school teacher. The topics of preconditions are: preparation for...

The purpose of this study was to empirically investigate the relationship between career plateauing and mentoring. First, the relationship between career plateauing and work-related attitudes was investigated. Next, the relationship between mentoring experience and work-related attitudes was examined. Finally, both experience as a mentor and mentoring provided were examined as moderators between career plateauing and work-related attitudes. Three hundred and six government employees located in the southeastern United States completed surveys (50.08% response rate). Of those, 110 reported mentor experience and 196 reported no mentor experience. In general, results provided support for the relationship between job content and hierarchical plateauing and negative work-related attitudes. No support was found for the relationship between job tenure and work-related attitudes. Support was found for the relationship between mentoring experience and positive work-related attitudes. With the exception of contextual performance, the relationship between mentoring provided and work-related attitudes was not supported. Little support was found for the interaction between mentor experience and plateauing, suggesting that mentoring others may not alleviate the negative effects of career plateauing. Implications and suggestions for future research are discussed.

The boy in his late middle childhood faces enormous changes — physically, socially and mentally. World-wide, people experience challenges - politically and economically as well as regarding social structures such as families. Children are not excluded from these challenges. Family structures change over time and fathers are increasingly becoming absent in the lives of their children. This Master's dissertation provides information concerning three major aspects regarding the boy. The first, as described in Article 1, is the effect of the absent father on the boy in his late middle childhood and that of the alternative father figure, the mentor. The second major aspect, as described in Article 2, is the influence of family ordinance on the boy in his transition phase from middle childhood into adolescence, his experience of the biological father and his expectancies regarding a mentor relationship The third major aspect is the adolescent boy's experience of his biological father, the influence of an alternative father figure, namely the mentor, and the affect of the mentor relationship. / Thesis (M.A. (MW))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2008.

The boy in his late middle childhood faces enormous changes — physically, socially and mentally. World-wide, people experience challenges - politically and economically as well as regarding social structures such as families. Children are not excluded from these challenges. Family structures change over time and fathers are increasingly becoming absent in the lives of their children. This Master's dissertation provides information concerning three major aspects regarding the boy. The first, as described in Article 1, is the effect of the absent father on the boy in his late middle childhood and that of the alternative father figure, the mentor. The second major aspect, as described in Article 2, is the influence of family ordinance on the boy in his transition phase from middle childhood into adolescence, his experience of the biological father and his expectancies regarding a mentor relationship The third major aspect is the adolescent boy's experience of his biological father, the influence of an alternative father figure, namely the mentor, and the affect of the mentor relationship. / Thesis (M.A. (MW))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2008.

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How to best conduct a mentoring relationship has been confounded by the lack of a consistent definition of “mentoring” and the scarcity of studies addressing how to achieve a positive outcome. This study contributes new, operationalized definitions of “mentoring,” “mentor,” and “protégé,” and a modified version of the Critical Incident Technique and the Enhanced Critical Incident Technique, called the Adapted Critical Incident Technique (ACIT), which is more consistent with a qualitative methodology. The researcher interviewed 18 self-described mentors and protégés to obtain 207 quotes about what critical behaviours helped or hindered mentoring relationship outcomes. Independent judges confirmed the placement of quotes into 13 categories of behaviours that helped mentors and protégés to reach the mentoring goals and 10 categories of behaviours that hindered the mentoring outcome. The findings contribute to an increased understanding of the foundation upon which mentors and protégés in all fields may potentially build better programs and training under the guise of mentorship. / Graduate / 2018-12-01

The diploma thesis deals with the issue of beginning teachers of health education. It focuses on the most common problems they have to face during the first 5 years in the teaching profession. The main goal of the thesis will be to identify the most common problems that beginning teachers of health education have to deal with. Furthermore, their adaptation in the school environment and inclusion in the teaching staff. But also coping with the problems during the first years of the teaching profession. Another goal will be to find out how they solve problems and how they deal with them. Whether they have been assigned an introductory teacher and whether they work with him. The theoretical part of the work clarifies the issues associated with the performance of the teaching profession, characterizes the preparation of the future teacher for the performance of the profession, further clarifies the term beginning teacher and introducing teacher. Last but not least, it describes the implementation of a beginning teacher. The practical part will be based on research through qualitative research - semi-structured interviews with beginning teachers of health education, who teach for a maximum of 5 years and with introductory teachers, with significantly longer practice and experience. The interview is...

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