Sisinyana Hannah Khunou
University of South Africa, RSA
Title: Mentoring of community service nurses in north west province of South Africa: a convergent, parallel, mixed method study
Biography
Biography: Sisinyana Hannah Khunou
Abstract
Newly qualified nurses in South Africa (RSA) are mandated to perform compulsory community service for a period of one year. The community service nurses (CSN) are allocated at different public health facilities in the South African provinces including the North West province (NWP). Several studies were conducted in other provinces regarding mentoring of the novice CSN. However there was little publication and documentation pertaining to mentoring of the CSN in NWP which is mostly rural and resource challenged. Convergent parallel mixed method design was used to collect data from CSN regarding their mentoring in NWP. In this study, both quantitative and qualitative data were collected, analyzed and merged to get corroborative results regarding mentoring of the CSN in NWP. The CSN sample size for quantitative and qualitative methods were 224 and 28 respectively. Merged results revealed a need for mentoring of CSN; possible benefits of mentoring; factors that enhance mentoring; factors that inhibit mentoring. Recommendations were done.