Development and psychometric testing of the nursing student mentors' competence instrument (MCI): A cross-sectional study

Abstract

The instrument exhibited acceptable psychometric properties, thereby proving itself a valuable tool for evaluating mentors' competence at mentoring students. Further assessments of its reliability, validity and generality for measuring mentor's competence for mentoring students in different contexts and cultures are recommended.

Development and testing of an evidence-based model of mentoring nursing students in clinical practice

“…In addition, we checked that the data met the following criteria for valid EFA: a Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) statistic >0.60, indicating sample adequacy; a significance value of p<0.01, indicating sufficient relatedness of variables, according to Bartlett´s test of sphericity (Costello and Osborne, 2005); and item loadings exceeding 0.30 (DeVellis, 2011). In the previous study (Tuomikoski et al, 2018a), eight factors were found to have <5% variance and seven <4% variance. In order to identify constructs that explain more variance with fewer factors (Peterson, 2000), in this study we improved the EFA by stepwise removal of factors with low variance and relatively little consistency of theoretical association with nursing students' mentoring needs, according to international studies.…”

“…Participants meeting two inclusion criteria (registered nurses working in a primary and/or specialized healthcare organization, with experience in mentoring nursing students during clinical practice) were recruited via a contact person provided by each organization. The questionnaire included questions on background information and the Mentors' Competence Instrument (Tuomikoski et al, 2018a). In the countries where data were collected electronically, two mixed approaches were used to improve the response rate.…”

“…The Mentors´ Competence Instrument (MCI) originally consisted of 63 items inviting 4-point Likert-type responses (1=totally disagree, to 4=totally agree) designed to assess 10 factors (Tuomikoski et al, 2018a). The factors are: mentoring practices in the workplace, mentor characteristics, mentor´s motivation, goal-oriented mentoring, reflection during mentoring, student-centered evaluation, constructive feedback, supporting the student´s learning process, identifying the student´s need for mentoring, and mentoring practices between student and mentor (covered by 6, 7, 5, 9, 6, 10, 4, 8, 4 and 4 items, respectively).…”

“…Following protocols applied in a previous validation study (Tuomikoski et al, 2018a), the acquired data were subjected to Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) with Promax rotation and principal axis factoring. Oblique rotation was maintained due to correlation among the scale´s factors (Pett et al, 2003).…”

Developing mentorship in clinical practice: Psychometrics properties of the Mentors' Competence Instrument

“…Recently, the Mentors´ Competence Instrument (MCI) was developed and validated in the Finnish context (Tuomikoski et al, 2018b). The scale demonstrated good validity and reliability.…”