Table 1 Showing interview questions
Personal characteristics What is your: Gender Qualification Type of facility work for Registration identity Number of years worked as nurse/midwife. Previous experience in formal mentoring |
Participants were asked: |
• How did the mentoring relationship with your mentee/ mentor start? |
o what activities have you initiated when you mentored other nurses/midwives, |
• What roles do mentors/mentees play in your hospitals? |
• What capabilities do you believe that a mentor/mentee should have to successfully mentor other nurses in the workplace? |
o What attributes do you look for in a mentee/ mentor. |
• What responsibility do you believe that a mentor/mentee needs to take on to successfully mentor other nurses/midwives or be mentored in the workplace? |
• What are some of the benefits you have realised mentoring others or being mentored? |
o How has mentoring others affected your career in nursing? |