Critical care nurses competences in mentoring students in the Intensive Care Unit

Header image ICU Illustration by Andre Riise, Nettrakett

This PhD project seeks to develop new knowledge to improve mentoring practices in the education of critical care nurses. The main aim is to improve the quality of education of specialist nurses during placement in the intensive care units (ICUs). The project seeks to obtain new knowledge by mapping the relevant mentoring competences in ICU nurses, develop and
feasibility test and pilot test an educational intervention improving the mentoring quality in ICUs educating critical care nurses in a collaboration between the university and ICUs.

P.I. Matias Rasi 

https://uit.no/project/icument

 

 

The overall aim of this study is to improve the competence for the mentoring of critical care nursing students during their ICU placements by introducing and testing an educational intervention for student mentoring during placement in ICUs.  Substudy/objective 1: To assess Norwegian critical care nurses’ competence and challenges in mentoring students in clinical placement in the ICU. Substudy/objective 2: To develop and assess the feasibility of an intervention aimed at improving nurse’s competence in mentoring critical care nursing students in clinical placement. Substudy/objective 3: To pilot test the intervention aimed at improving nurse’s competence in mentoring critical care nursing students in clinical placement

Start: October 04. 2023
End: December 31. 2027





Participants:

Bente Norbye
Kristina Mikkonen
Monica Evelyn Kvande
Tove Aminda Hanssen
Matias Rasi