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Rodrigues, Devina E.
- A Comparative Study on Perception Regarding Mentorship between Mentees and Mentors in a Selected College, Mangalore
Authors
1 Father Muller College of Nursing, Mangalore, IN
Source
Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development, Vol 10, No 12 (2019), Pagination: 775-778Abstract
Introduction: Being a mentor is not an easy task.it is multifaceted responsibility of taking up teaching, counseling, guiding and supervising altogether. Availability of time, resources, personality traits, commitment, skill all need to be in sufficient amount and it should be accessible to the Mentee at any given time of the day. The relationship between Mentor and Mentee is like a two delicate end of a seesaw, a slight mismatch can lose its essence. “Mentors support the students in the clinical area & acts as a role model, facilitates the learning experience on placement1”. This investigation is an eye opener for the authorities to further strengthen the existing mentorship program for the well-being of the students. The objectives of the study were: 1) to compare the perception regarding mentorship between Mentees and Mentors. 2) to find the association between level of perception regarding mentorship and selected baseline characteristics of the Mentors and Mentees.\
Method and materials: The descriptive, comparative research design was used to compare the perception of the Mentors and Mentees towards mentorship. The sample consists of 193Mentees and their 18 Mentors. The entire Mentors population was taken for the study. The data were obtained by using a five- point rating scale. Out of total Mentees 91.7% were happy with their Mentors, and only a small proportion i.e. 8.3% were unhappy with their Mentors.The larger proportion i.e. 94.4% of Mentors were happy to be the part of the mentorship program. The overall 63.7% Mentees had a negative perception and 36.3% of Mentees had a positive perception, the Mentors’ negative perception is about 27.8% and 72.2% had a positive perception toward mentorship.
Conclusion: Mentors perception was better than Mentees.
Keywords
Program, Mentor, Mentee, Perception, Students, Nurses.- A Study to Assess the Professional Quality Life among Nurses of a Selected Institute in Mangaluru
Authors
1 Yenepoya Nursing College, Mangalore, IN
2 Father Muller College of Nursing, Mangalore, IN
Source
Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development, Vol 10, No 12 (2019), Pagination: 779-782Abstract
Introduction: An essence of work output is more or less lies in the quality of professional life. The members of the nursing fraternity have learned, realized and strongly believe in the concept that says the nursing is a noble profession and patient satisfaction is utmost important. The patient and their relatives at the time of vulnerable situation completely depend on nurses as they are available for them all 24 hours of the day. To give the best possible, efficient and effective care delivery we need to have a conducive work environment. Keeping these views in mind the investigators have conducted this study. The Objectives of the study were: 1) To determine the professional quality of life among nurses. 2) To find the association between the professional quality of life and selected baseline variables.
Method and material: A descriptive study was conducted among 80 nurses working in various wards and intensive care setups of a super specialty hospital at Mangalore. The data were conducted from 80 subjects who were selected by convenience sampling technique. The Instrument Used for the data Collection were five- point rating Scale prepared by Hudnall Stamm 2009-2012 version 5–Prof QOL.
Results: The mean scores of overall professional quality of life among the nurses were 94.33± SD 9.03 with mean% 62.88. The mean scores in the component of satisfaction was 36.8± SD 6.52 with mean% 73.6; The mean scores in the component of burnout was 30.9± SD 3.94 with mean% 61.8; The mean scores in the component of secondary traumatic stress was 26.5± SD 5.92 with a mean% 53.0; The findings revealed that subjects professional quality of life in the component related to secondary traumatic stress was low compared to the rest of the two components.
Conclusion: The study reveals that the intervention required directing towards the nurses to bring up job satisfaction, to reduce burnout and traumatic stress among the nurses.