Mentorship method in Clinical Education of Nursing Students: A Systematic Review

It has been reported that there is a rather deep gap in clinical skills training and clinical practice. Mentorship is one of the modern educational approaches. The aim of study was to review the works on mentorship method systematically for clinical education of nursing students. Methods: This was a systematic review. The Farsi search was conducted in IranMedex, Magiran and SID. The English search was done in ERIC, PubMed, Google Scholar, Scopus, Ovide, Elsevier and ProQuest with the keywords Mentor, Mentorship, Mentoring, Student, Nursing and Mentee from 2007 to 2018. Result: On the whole, 26 articles were obtained related to the subject srom which 19 articles were in Latin and 7 in Persian. Of these, only 5 papers were selected for analysis. Although studies were different in terms of the number of participants, Mentor and the educated contents to nursing students, they all noted that the implementation of the mentorship program promoted the clinical competence of the students. Conclusion: Using Mentoring approach in clinical education is effective on learning, retention, acquisition of skills and enhancement of clinical competence of nursing students. It is recommended that the mentorship program be used for clinical education of nursing and paramedical students.