The Role of Senior Mentorship in Building Clinical Confidence among Novice Nurses: A Comparative Analysis

Clinical confidence is one of the essential qualities that new nurses need to acquire as they enter the world of professional practice. Owing to the theory-practice gap, these nurses tend to develop anxiety and uncertainty, which limit their potential to deliver safe, effective care to patients. Senior mentorship has proven to be among the salient methods adopted towards bridging this gap for novice nurses, who sometimes find such mentorship as structured guidance, support, and role modeling that would put the novice nurse in a better position in terms of both competence and confidence. The present study, titled “The Role of Senior Mentorship in Building Clinical Confidence Among Novice Nurses: A Comparative Analysis”, investigated the variation in levels of clinical confidence between novice nurses who were provided with structured mentorship and those who had no such tool at selected hospitals in Davao Oriental.