Clinical nursing mentors' motivation, attitude, and practice for mentoring and factors associated with them.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateWe confirm that all methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines. This work has been carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (2000) of the World Medical Association. This study has been approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of Ningbo College of Health Sciences. All participants were informed about the study protocol and provided written informed consent to participate in the study. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding This study was supported by the Zhejiang Province 2023 China Vocational Education Research project (No. ZJCV2023E13)."