Practicing Leadership Skills through Peer Mentoring and Teaching: the Lived Experience of BSN Students

Although leadership theory is introduced in baccalaureate nursing curriculum, opportunities to practice and develop leadership skills are limited for undergraduate nursing students. This study explores the experience of advanced nursing students who provided mentoring and tutoring to beginning nursi...

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Published in:International journal of nursing education scholarship 2019-12, Vol.16 (1)
Main Author: Bright, Alicia L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Awareness
Clinical Competence
Clinical Decision-Making
Communication
Curricula
Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate - methods
Female
Group Processes
Humans
Leadership
Male
Medical education
Mentoring
Mentoring - methods
Moral Development
Nursing
Nursing education
nursing leadership
nursing leadership education
nursing leadership skills
Peer Group
Peer tutoring
peer-mentoring
peer-teaching
Practice, Psychological
Problem Solving
Professional practice
Self Concept
Students
Teaching
Tutoring
Young Adult
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Summary:Although leadership theory is introduced in baccalaureate nursing curriculum, opportunities to practice and develop leadership skills are limited for undergraduate nursing students. This study explores the experience of advanced nursing students who provided mentoring and tutoring to beginning nursing students. The experiences they describe are interpreted in light of literature on leadership education in undergraduate nursing schools, as well as that of peer mentoring and peer teaching. These advanced students described opportunities to practice and reflect on leadership skills and attributes. Peer mentoring and peer teaching programs may be an effective and efficient way of helping nursing students gain leadership skills and experience.
ISSN:2194-5772
1548-923X
DOI:10.1515/ijnes-2019-0022