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MHLONGO, X L  y  NARANJEE, N. Mentoring programme on research supervision to enhance nurse educators' research supervision skills. Afr. J. Health Prof. Educ. (Online) [online]. 2025, vol.17, n.2, pp.90-94. ISSN 2078-5127.  https://doi.org/10.7196/AJHPE.2025.v17i2.2522.

BACKGROUND: The major challenge that nurse educators encounter is to teach and supervise research without proper supervision skills. The absence of proper guidelines for research supervision of undergraduates' research projects leads to confusion among research supervisors and students. OBJECTIVES: To explore the strategies to enhance research supervision skills among nurse educators to develop a mentoring programme for research supervision. The objectives of this study included: (i) identifying nurse educators' strategies to enhance research supervision; and (ii) developing a mentoring programme on research supervision (MPRS) to enhance nurse educators' research supervision skills. METHODS: A qualitative, exploratory descriptive research design was used to allow the researchers to collect rich and detailed data that describe the participants' realities in their own words. Data were collected through focus group discussions from 27 nurse educators who were selected purposively from four nursing campuses across two South African provinces. Computer-aided qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) (NVivo version 12) for thematic analysis was used to analyse data. RESULTS: The study revealed that assistance in research supervision, elevating research supervisors' knowledge in research, enhancing research supervisors' interest, and understanding the role as a supervisor in research were the main findings of the study. The results were used to develop an MPRS, highlighting three main components: access, plan and mentorship in progress. CONCLUSION: The results revealed that providing assistance in research supervision through coaching could play a crucial role. An MPRS has been developed and will be piloted at a few institutions. The expected plan will involve targeted implementation, evaluation and refinement based on feedback from these initial sites, thereby ensuring that it meets the needs of nurse educators who supervise nursing research.

Palabras clave : mentoring programme; nurse educators; public nursing colleges; research supervision.

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