As a senior sister and clinical mentor I will ensure that all nurses are taught in an environment that is conducive for learning and consideration will be given to individual abilities. My experience as a mentor in different hospitals in London gave me the opportunity to appreciate the diversities in learning styles. This, I am sure will be of great benefit to your hospital both at an academic and clinical level.…
Induction programs are professional experiences for beginning teachers that provide systematic and sustained assistance to ease the transition into teaching (Kauchak & Eggen, 2005, p.500). For example, an induction program assists new teachers with teacher workshops that cater to first year teachers to help them to be better successful in their new classrooms. Mentoring programs are experienced teachers who provide guidance and support for beginning teachers (Kauchak & Eggen, 2005, p.500). The difference between mentoring and induction programs is mentoring programs is done by a single person (an experienced teacher) who help guide you in succeeding inside your classroom, and an induction program is a program that contains workshops and provides first year teachers crucial information to be able to be successful in their new classrooms.…
Pellat G. (2006). The role of Mentors in supporting pre registration nursing students. British Journal of Nursing. Vol 15; no.6…
I know that having the ability to a good listener and be open minded and direct the mentee thought process to allow them to see things from another perspective is really important.…
For this week's discussion I chose to focus on the importance of mentorship in nursing. This will focus on identifying the characteristics of mentors that have (or could be) most successful in recruiting and training diverse nurses and nurse faculty. At my facility me and another fellow nurse are head of our units mentoring program. This program that we have implemented focuses on the new graduated nurse and follows them through their first year of nursing. The new graduated nurse is paired up with a seasoned day shift and night shift nurse to answer any questions, facilitate a mentor-new graduate relationship and help orient the new nurse and try to build a strong, confident nurse. We routinely once a month see that the new nurse and their mentor meet to see how thing are going and see if they have any problems or concerns whether it be clinical skills, problems with other staff/physicians, prioritizing, and task management. Through this we are hoping to be able to increase morale, patient satisfaction and increase nurse retention. As new nurses enter the workforce they face a challenge going from student nurse to professional nurse. One must be prepared mentally, physically and emotionally to be a mentor and to set a productive learning environment for the new graduate.…
With the list of positive benefits to group mentoring there are a few risks that can interfere with the learning and development of mentees and mentors:…
Politically speaking, mentoring truly matters in nursing because the relationship that is created between the new graduates with their mentors provides positive feedback and is indeed a great investment in the health care. On the long run, confident nurses improve the overall health outcome of the system as a whole as well as patients' health, which naturally leads to reduction of fiscal spending on patient's readmission into hospitals and less occurrence of medical errors.…
Department of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, MA 02118, USA. sramani@bu.edu…
624). This definition is expanded in the nursing field as the mentoring relationship should foster a supportive, caring, respectful environment where the mentor and mentee can collaborate and develop personally and professionally (Poronsky, 2012). Mentors rely on their professional experience to guide their mentees. Mentors encourage and support their mentees, yet at the same time, find ways to challenge and promote growth within their mentees. Mentorship often occurs during periods of transition, such as when mentees are beginning a new role or a new profession (Poronsky,…
A new, colorful piece of art has been installed at Berkley High School and it fits so perfectly in its place, it seems it was always meant to be there.…
Nursing education ensures that students will enter the workforce prepared for the demanding field of nursing. One way that nursing education can be effective in decreasing the probability of turnovers is to implement a mentor system. Mentoring is a, “reciprocal relationship between two or more people that involves counseling, guiding, sharing knowledge,…
Life can be a treacherous journey that even the toughest people have trouble making it through. No one, not even the greatest superheros can get through it alone. We all need some sort of mentor. Someone like Mr. Miyagi was to Karate Kid and Athena was to Odysseus. I am no different, a mentor’s job is to lead and guide you through whatever life throws your way. My mentor has done that and much more. Normally it seems most mentors either come from different ethnicities or cultural backgrounds but, not in this case. Me and my mentor share a ton of the same characteristics and traits. Although he is older and much more wiser, we are still close enough in age to experience and enjoy some of the same cultural activities. One of them being checking…
According to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) (2006) the term mentor is used to denote the role of a registered nurse who facilitates learning and supervises and assesses students in the practice place. The council identify eight mandatory standards that must be achieved to become a mentor. Within the assignment I shall be referring to the Standards to Support Learning and Assessment in a clinical practice.…
As a graduate student, I tutored Martin, a college senior in Calculus and Physics. It took me too long to see that he had a learning disability and because I pushed him constantly with the coursework, he failed the two courses and eventually spent an extra year in college.…
I feel like the most important attribute for a mentor is a willingness to help other people. I think that a Year 9 Mentor should be not only be helpful, but also respectful, honest, determined and confident. I feel as though I have some of the attributes that a Year 9 Mentor needs, and the ones that I don’t have, I would really like to improve upon and try to learn more of, and I believe that being a mentor will enable me to do so. The main reason why I’d like to be a mentor Is because I understand how daunting it can be to come to a new school where you don’t know anyone, and that’s why I’d like to be there for the new year nines, as someone who utterly wants to help them and someone who they can easily approach. I’d really like to help…