The evaluation of an early graduate educational intervention

A comparison of faculty led, mentorship program and peer mentoring on nursing students wound dressing clinical skills

“…Furthermore, it adds to students' ability to integrate theoretical knowledge with practical facts, understand the nature of clinical work, and develop a sense of autonomy (Jamshidi et al, 2016). While developing a strong theoretical knowledge base, new graduate nurses must also have strong clinical skills and abilities an area that has been pointed to as a weakness in some baccalaureate programs (O'Connor et al, 2018;Yousefy et al, 2015). Aside from psychomotor skills, students must also acquire skills such as critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making.…”

“…All of these are key goals of clinical training practice (Zarifsanaiey et al, 2016). In Iran, and in other countries, the specification of curriculum for clinical rotations has been shown to be somewhat lacking and underdeveloped leading to calls for new and innovative ideas in this regard (Ahanchian et al, 2017;O'Connor et al, 2018;Shivers et al, 2017). Teaching in clinical practice has been traditionally faculty led and does not draw on the experience of qualified nurses or other in the clinical environment.…”