Mentorship is a relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps to guide a less experienced or less knowledgeable person. Mentoring is a process for the informal transmission of knowledge and the psychosocial support perceived by the recipient as relevant to work, career, or professional development; mentoring entails informal communication, usually face-to-face and during a sustained period of time, between a person who is perceived to have greater relevant knowledge, wisdom, or experience (the mentor) and a person who is perceived to have less".

Raefa Refaat Alam is an assistant professor in the Gerontological Nursing Department at Mansoura University and serves as the Dean of the Faculty of Nursing at Mansoura National University. She has held numerous responsibilities, including serving as the Dean of the Technical Institute of Nursing at Mansoura University from 2012 to 2016 and founding the Higher Technology of Health Science Institute and the Technical Institute of Nursing in Egypt from 2017 to 2023. She has participated in various scientific committees at the university and college level, including the quality accreditation unit, internship committee, and university facilities committee. Additionally, she coordinates the internship year at the Technical Institute of Nursing, teaches scientific courses to undergraduate students at the Faculty of Nursing and the Technical Institute of Nursing, and instructs postgraduate students pursuing master's and doctoral degrees. Raefa has supervised three theses at the Faculty of Nursing, prepared and written scientific research papers to achieve the highest scientific grades in her specialty, completed a quality management training course, and has been a research nurse at the Egyptian Liver Hospital for six years.