[Peer mentorship: nursing student and clinical preceptor perceptions].
The clinical teaching in nursing has the aim to help the student to acquire technical ability, to develop his professional responsibility and to pass from a depended and supervised practice to an independent one. Literature describes many strategies to facilitate students' learning, like "peer teaching". In the Nursing School of Udine peer teaching is characterized by a role of "guide" in apprenticeship assumed by the student of the third year towards a student of the first year. The objective of the study is to analyze the students and the clinical tutors perception of this model. The study is observational; the sample is composed by third year (40) and first year students (150) and by clinical tutors (40) that took part in this tutorial model in the academic year 2002/03 and 2003/04. The instrument is a questionnaire. A positive impact of peer teaching emerges. Nevertheless there are some difficulties faced by the clinical tutor in his role of supervisor and by the "guide" student struggling with a responsibility that put in discussion his theoretical, clinical and pedagogical preparation. It is therefore necessary to prepare the guide student for an important role in nursing education.
Tutor Corso di Laurea in Infermieristica di Udine.
Giampiera
G
Bulfone
Rosanna
R
Cremonini
Antonietta
A
Zanini
Simone
S
Tresolin
Vittorio
V
Bresadola
D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008611:Mentors; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D011231:Preceptorship; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*