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Nurses play an important role in developing the competence of nursing students and acting as role models for students during clinical practice placements. Nurses need diverse competence to successfully mentor nursing student.

This study aimed to describe and explain nurse mentor competence in mentoring nursing students in clinical practice settings based on self-evaluation, as well as identify different mentor profiles.

This study employed a cross-sectional, descriptive design involving a self-administered electronic version of the Mentor Competence Instrument.

The study population included nurse mentors from all five university hospitals in Finland.

Through random sampling, 3355 nurse mentors were invited to take part in the study in 2016.

Data was collected using Mentors Competence Instrument, which consists of 63 items structured in 10 mentoring …