The clinical nurse's experience in mentoring newly graduated peers, Chile.

Abstract

<h4>Objective</h4>To know and understand the experience lived by clinical nurses who tutor newly graduated peers during their hiring stage in hospitals and other health organisations in the country.<h4>Method</h4>Qualitative study of phenomenological approach carried out in Chile between the months of September 2019 to January 2020, Covid-19 prepandemic. An in-depth interview was conducted with fifteen clinical nurses. The data analysis was guided by the methodological principles of Alfred Schütz's social phenomenology, the results in the light of his theory and the scientific references associated with the subject.<h4>Results</h4>Three categories and twelve themes emerged in this study. Despite differences in their sociodemographic data, all fifteen participants reported similar experiences in the role of peer tutoring recent graduates. They all mentored from their own mentoring experience and without guidelines from their organization, faced the same difficulties and needs, and raised the same criticisms for improvement related to changes that would allow them to improve their performance.<h4>Conclusions</h4>From the perspective of the fifteen nurses it was possible to know and understand how they live the experience of mentoring newly graduated peers in the workplace, however, the results should be taken with caution due to the limitations of the study. Further research on this topic is recommended.