Effect of Training Program on Unit Managers’ Mentoring Knowledge and Skills at Selected University Hospital-Egypt

Abstract

The notion of mentoring can be understood as a one-to-one relationship between a mentor and a mentee. Aim; investigate the effect of training program on unit managers’ mentoring knowledge and skills. Research design; Quasi experimental design was utilized. The study sample; composed of all head nurses (n= 27) who were actually in the active workforce during the time of data collection. Was carried out after explanation of the aim of the study, an official administrative approval was obtained, all unit staff were observed for mentoring skills by observational checklist; pre, immediate and follow up the program. Every participant was observed three times at different time's period at different days. Knowledge assessment questionnaire was concerned with the assessment of the participants’ knowledge regarding to mentoring, negotiation and counseling. Results; this study showed that there was positive correlation between unit managers’ mentoring skills and knowledge in pre, immediate post and follow up the program implementation. Conclusion: based on these findings the training program is effective in improving the unit managers’ mentoring knowledge and skills which were evident by statistical increase in their knowledge and skills mean scores in post program scores compared to pre program mean scores. So the research hypotheses were accepted. Therefore, it is recommended that replication of the research on a large probability sample is recommended to achieve more generalization