Z. Safavi Bayat
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Title: The Comparison between the Effects of Mentorship-based Clinical Education and Traditional-based Clinical Education on Critical Thinking and Satisfaction among Nursing Students
Biography
Biography: Z. Safavi Bayat
Abstract
Introduction: Due to shortage of nurses and nurse educators, mentorship method can be used to promote critical thinking and decision making skills in nursing students. This study was conducted to compare the effect of two different methods, mentorship and traditional, on critical thinking and satisfaction among nursing students. This study was conducted to evaluate and compare critical thinking and satisfaction of nursing students in two educational groups mentorship and traditional method.
Methods: This study was a quasi-experimental study with pre-test and posttest design. data was collected using Demographic Questionnaire, California Critical Thinking Questionnaire and Satisfaction Questionnaire. 77 nursing students were selected by simple random sampling method and divided in two groups of traditional (30) and mentorship (30). Content validity (0.87), with eight confirmed cases of teachers and the reliability test (0.84) were obtained using Cronbach's alpha .Data were analyzed by SPSS/16. Analysis was performed using T-test, paired T-test and Chi Square.