discussion week 2
Week 2 Discussion
Nurses as Leaders in Health Care Reform
Allison B. Neal 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. Then manner in which new graduates are socialized and oriented in the unit or facility is essential. Our unit adopted this program because we found/heard that many new graduates coming out of nursing school felt like sometimes the more seasoned nurses were sometimes unfriendly or "like to eat their young". Obviously this is unacceptable and with the nursing shortages and the cost to hire and orient and new nursing graduate, nursing turnover is frowned upon. On the renal floor that I work on all nurses must go through telemetry classes and be ACLS certified this all comes out of our budget for education so having to
Nurses as Leaders in Health Care Reform
Allison B. Neal 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. Then manner in which new graduates are socialized and oriented in the unit or facility is essential. Our unit adopted this program because we found/heard that many new graduates coming out of nursing school felt like sometimes the more seasoned nurses were sometimes unfriendly or "like to eat their young". Obviously this is unacceptable and with the nursing shortages and the cost to hire and orient and new nursing graduate, nursing turnover is frowned upon. On the renal floor that I work on all nurses must go through telemetry classes and be ACLS certified this all comes out of our budget for education so having to