TITLE:
Nursing of Critical Care Specialty Students’ Satisfaction on Clinical Mentorship and Mentor’s Profile
AUTHORS:
José Jonathan Calvo-Cruzalba, Diana Cecilia Tapia-Pancardo, Laura Morán-Peña
KEYWORDS:
Clinical Mentorship, Specialty Nursing Students
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Nursing,
Vol.15 No.9,
September
18,
2025
ABSTRACT: Introduction: Intensive care education confronts the student to a complex reality: in patients hemodynamically unstable and device-dependent to keep them alive, is there when the mediator (clinical mentor), as referred by Vygotsky, guides the student through their experience. Objective: To identify the satisfaction about clinical mentorship of critical care specialty, perceived by nursing students related to their mentor’s profile. Method: Quantitative research with a transverse-analytical design. Eighty-four students and fifteen mentors participated, the data collection instrument was the “Development of a tool to evaluate the quality of mentoring for nurses”, with a Cronbach α of 0.96 reliability. Results: Global satisfaction mean of 129 ± 0.57 from a maximun possible of 170, and 57% representing a high grade of satisfaction. According to sex the Pearson correlation coefficient (t = −2.413, df = 68, m = 124, p = 0.019), in Females (n) = 53, 124 ± 22 and in Males (n) = 31, 138 ± 19.49.). Conclusion: The hypothesis: the higher the clinical mentor’s profile, the higher satisfaction of clinical mentorship by nursing students, was not confirmed, since there was no significant evidence nor difference in clinical mentor’s profile during the evaluation. Even results on perception were high, this could be influenced by the amount of students with no labor experience entering the program, such that it limits a deep analysis, critical judgement, and academic questioning to the expert; then, quality of clinical mentorship allows the forming of expert, decisive, and decisions’ maker specialists based on evidence. Finally, in exploring the index mentor-student it is proposed its standardization in all campuses were the Sole Program for Nursing Specialty (PUEE) is imparted.