Effect of Mentoring Program on Nurses Interns’ knowledge, Attitudes, Safety Practices, and Psychological Readiness Toward COVID-19 Pandemic | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||||
| Article 46, Volume 12, Issue 2, June 2021, Page 741-756 PDF (1.06 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2021.171361 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Azza Ibrahim Abdelkader Habiba1; Amel Attia Abd Elghaffar Moustafa2; Amal Awad Abd El-Nabi Moussa3 | ||||
| 1Assistant Professor, Medical- Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Damanhour University, Egypt. | ||||
| 2Lecturer, Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Damanhour University, Egypt. | ||||
| 3Assistant Professor of Psychiatric Nursing and Mental Health, Faculty of Nursing, Damanhour University, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| COVID-19 was and still one of the most serious global health care burden on patients, families, communities as well as health care workers (HCWs). All HCWs including nurses’ interns has more vital role in prevention and caring of this infection. Thus, ongoing training for nurses’ interns under the scope of mentoring is a corner stone in continuing effective and efficient nursing care with high quality. Aim of the Study: to evaluate the effect of mentoring program on nurse interns’ knowledge, attitudes, safety practices, and psychological readiness toward COVID-19 pandemic. Research Design: Quasi experimental one group pre/post test research design was adopted. Setting: The present study was conducted at different training governmental and private hospitals for nurses’ interns. Subjects: A convenient sample of 179 out of 335 nurses interns were enrolled in the study. Tools: Online web-based electronic self- administrated questionnaires were used for data collection; I) Nurses interns’ knowledge regarding COVID-19 structured questionnaire, II) Nurses interns’ attitudes regarding COVID-19 structured questionnaire, III) Nurses interns’ safety practices towards COVID-19 observational checklist, and IV) Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-21)". Results: statistically significant improvement in nurses’ interns’ knowledge, attitudes, safety practices levels and psychological readiness toward COVID-19 after conducting mentorship program. Conclusion: Mentorship program positively affects nurses’ interns’ levels of knowledge, attitudes, and safety practices as well as psychological readiness Recommendation: Incorporates the mentoring program within nurses’ internship training program as a basic tool of training, to provide continuous support and ongoing evaluation of nurses’ interns’ knowledge, attitudes, safety practices and psychological readiness. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| COVID-19 pandemic; nurses’ interns; mentoring program; Safety Practices; Psychological Readiness | ||||
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