Experience of Learner-Teachers on Mentoring Provided by Supervisors during Educational Internships at the Higher Institute of Medical Techniques of Kinshasa

Introduction: Mentoring is a process of professional support between a mentor and a mentee. Also, it is a learning method intended to help a learner to perfect their professional career. The aim of this research is to understand the experience of nursing learner-teachers at the Higher Institute of Medical Techniques of Kinshasa on the mentoring provided by supervisors during educational internships. Method: this is a qualitative and descriptive study. It was carried out with learners of the Third Degree in teaching and administration in nursing at the Higher Institute of Medical Techniques of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This study used the qualitative inquiry method combined with interview as a technique. With the sample size of nine learners. Results: The results reveal that mentoring has a positive meaning for the learner, because it is a beneficial activity that helps improve practice. The learners negatively assessed the performance of the mentoring benefit by raising two points: Insufficient performance of the mentoring and the insufficiency in the organization of the mentoring the study mentions that there is a low contribution of the mentoring provided by the supervisors during the internship. The big difficulty that made mentoring insufficient is lack of follow-up of learners. To do this, they suggested to the nursing science section which strategies for them to improve. Mentoring includes: Having supervisors available for the educational internship; have the means to facilitate mentoring and organize training on mentoring during educational internships. Conclusion: In view of these results and while reiterating the suggestions of the respondents, we propose that the nursing science section look into the supervision of the scientific staff assigned to support learners in educational internships.