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Practicing Leadership Skills through Peer Mentoring and Teaching: the Lived Experience of BSN Students

Alicia L. Bright

Abstract

Although leadership theory is introduced in baccalaureate nursing curriculum, opportunities to practice and develop leadership skills are limited for undergraduate nursing students. This study explores the experience of advanced nursing students who provided mentoring and tutoring to beginning nursing students. The experiences they describe are interpreted in light of literature on leadership education in undergraduate nursing schools, as well as that of peer mentoring and peer teaching. These advanced students described opportunities to practice and reflect on leadership skills and attributes. Peer mentoring and peer teaching programs may be an effective and efficient way of helping nursing students gain leadership skills and experience.

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Received: 2019-03-03
Revised: 2019-10-06
Accepted: 2019-10-23
Published Online: 2019-12-03

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