Abstract
The main purpose of this study was to investigate and examine the effectiveness of a mentorship programme implemented at King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, on the clinical competence of newly hired professional nurses, and to make recommendations for the improvement of the mentorship programme implemented at the university hospital to help newly hired professional nurses adapt to their new working environment,( Tiew et al, 2017: 77-82) The study utilised a quasi-experimental quantitative research design (Harris et al, 2006:16-23), where the effectiveness of the mentorship programme before and after its implementation was determined, as perceived by the newly hired professional nurses. A standardised self-efficacy in clinical performance (SECP) questionnaire (Bandura, 1982:122-147), developed by Cheraghi and Hassani, was adopted to evaluate clinical competence, (Cheraghi, Hassani, Yaghmaei & Alavi-Majed, 2009:214-221) The research population in the study were newly hired professional nurses in Saudi Arabia. However, the accessible population (Liamputtong, 2013:235-246) in this study were newly hired professional nurses at King Saud University Medical City. The total accessible population size was N=100, of which 26% (n=26) were males and 74% (n=74) were females. The sampling technique used was the convenience sampling (Polit & Beck, 2016:548-555), and the acceptance rate was 100% (n=100). The study was conducted in two main parts. The first part of the study was determining the clinical competence of the newly hired professional nurses before and after the mentorship programme. The use of a pre-test-post-test survey and SECP enabled the researcher to evaluate any changes in competence during the time that the programme was implemented. The second part of the study involved developing and making recommendations to improve the implemented mentorship programme. The research findings were analysed through the IBM Social Packages for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25.0 statistical analysis, (Pallant, 2010:181-247)...
M.Cur. (Nursing)