Pedagogical mentoring of teacher-manager learners during internships: experience and expectations of bachelor's and master's nursing finalists. “the case of the Nursing Sciences section, Institut Supérieur des Techniques Médicales de Kinshasa”

Abstract

Mentoring is seen as a personal and professional helping relationship between a novice learner (the mentee) and an experienced and competent person in the field (the mentor). The general aim of this study is to understand the experience and expectations of EASI finalist learners regarding mentoring during academic training courses, with a view to improving this deficiency. A phenomenological approach was used to collect data. The aim was to identify the mentoring experience of EASI finalist learners. In the light of what the EASI finalist learners had to say, it should be pointed out that mentoring is a strategy of accompaniment, support, guidance and coaching. Practiced during the pedagogical internship. This corroborates the understanding of mentoring based on lived experience and expectations of mentors and the Section des Sciences Infirmières.