Nursing Literature Review

Question: Write a literature review. Answer: Research Statement: Effect of nursing mentors to reduce student's stress level during their nursing practice Literature Review: Nursing students undergo a series of practice programs during their nursing course. This program is placed in the practice to provide the efficiencies and necessary medical skills to become a registered nurse. The main role of the mentor is to supervise and support these pre-registered nurses during their practice. In nursing training, "Fitness to Practice" is modified with the introduction of "Making a Difference" programs in 2004. According to this program, the equal importance will be divided between practice and theory (Wilson, 2014). This program helps to build up the relationship between the mentor and the practising nurses. These mentors are selected from the students who had received the nursing training before entering the institution. To understand the relationship between the mentors and students one study was done through interviewing twelve UK registered nurses. According to those nurses, after mentoring the students, they identified two students with six key aspects as their nursing role, which are, managing conflicting responsibilities and roles, learning through students, facilitating learning and supporting students (Li et al., 2011). Despite the importance of this program, the student nurses go through high-stress level during their training period. This stress can come due to many reasons. The cultural differences play a major role in the overseas nurses during the period of practice (Levett Jones et al., 2009). There are many strategies to lower down the stress level in the nursing students. Such type of strategy is peer mentoring (Allan, 2010). In this research, the research proposal will be made based on the relationship between mentor and student nurse. It will also discuss the effect of this relationship to reduce the stress level in student nurses. Design Research approach: This particular research approach can be formed through mixed method. In mixed method both, the quantitative and qualitative approach will be needed. This research will be conducted in a sample of mentors and students. Therefore, mixed method suits the approach (Jokelainen et al., 2013). The approach will be made through analyzing the following statement: The understanding of mentors and students by the mentorship program The influence of gained knowledge in the learning of the student The influence of the training and mentors in the life of the students Recommendations to reduce stress in the life of the student Research Design: In qualitative research design, field research will be chosen. In field research, the data will be collected through fieldwork. To conduct this research, it is necessary to observe or interview the mentors and students of a chosen sample. Sometimes, to support those data, the researcher has to do different types of fieldwork (Smith et al., 2015). In quantitative research design, the experimental method will be chosen. Quantitative research is related to collecting the data in numerical form. To get this data, the researcher has to perform different experiments in trial and error basis among the mentors and students. Research Method: The research method is a methodological way through which the research will be conducted. To start with, this research few specific nursing institutions have to be chosen. A sample will be made with a fixed number of mentors and student nurses of that chosen institutions (Annear Robinson 2014). The number will be selected after reviewing the institution. Then research will be performed through the quantitative and qualitative way in that sample. Later the result and recommendations will be drawn from that. Data collection method: While conducting the research, the data will be collected through questionnaire and interviewing the sample. These methods will satisfy the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the research. Interviewing the mentors and the students is a qualitative method. To interview, these people the researcher has to do a lot of fieldwork (McCallum et al., 2015). To analyze these data quantitative analysis should be done. Quantitative analysis means to analyze the data with rubrics. So, the rubrics will be used through a questionnaire in quantitative analysis. These two methods also can b used to support those collected data. Organizational policies, procedures and protocols: The researcher has to consider the organizational policies, procedures and protocols to conduct research. Here, in this research, firstly, the researcher has to know about the recruitment policy of the mentors in the institutions. This will help to know about the whole recruitment process for this program. Then the research will be having his/her policy regarding research grant. Even the organization also will be having its policy to provide the research grant (Wilson, 2014). Each organization has its procedure. Therefore, before stating the research, the researcher has to be aware of that procedure. According to that procedure, the researcher can take the interview and perform questionnaire among those nurses. The researcher should also know about the protocol of the organization, as the free time of the nurses, opening time of the organization. Therefore, the researcher has to be very well known about these facts. References: Allan, H. (2010). Mentoring overseas nurses: Barriers to effective and non-discriminatory mentoring practices.Nursing Ethics,17(5), 603-613. Annear, M., Lea, E., Robinson, A. (2014). 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