My Relationship With A Mentorship At Valley Medical Hospital

Mentorship
A mentorship is a one-on-one collaborative learning and teaching relationship between an experienced mentor nurse, and a new or less experienced mentee. In some cases, these relationships are spontaneously developed, while in regards to our clinical preceptorship, individuals are intentionally paired or matched with one another. The role of the mentor is to help guide, transition, and develop their mentee into learning their new position and role on the unit (Hnatiuk, 2013). A good mentee, as Kelly & Tazbir have described, would be an individual who is hardworking, willing to learn, and anxious to succeed (2014). Moreover, through mentoring relationships, the entire healthcare team, in addition to our clients may benefit through
At the end of our role-playing, we all debriefed and discussed what we could possibly do differently to make the communication or conversation in each scenario work better. This was a safe learning strategy that helped prepare me to not take things too personally, and also provided me with ways that I could respond confidently towards my preceptor in new and sometimes challenging situations during my clinical experience on the Surgical Unit at Valley Medical Center. Another thing that I had done during the orientation process to my unit was ask my preceptor, Veronica Giles, about her background in nursing. Through having this conversation with her, I found that it was an important and good thing to discuss, as it not only allowed me to make a connection with her, but it also reminded me that all nurses go through the same process of having been a mentee to a mentor prior to getting to where they are as RNs. It also possibly got her in a frame of reference of being a mentee, by reflecting back, and remembering what it was like being a student nurse/new nurse.
Experience as a
However, my clinical preceptor was the one who provided me with the most wisdom through working alongside her this semester. She was very patient, listening, encouraging, and always sought input from me on what I felt she could do to help me get the most out of my experiences. From the very first day, she had told me not to be afraid to ask her any questions because she would rather have me ask than make a mistake. This had reduced a lot of my initial stress. In addition, throughout my clinical rotation, she had oriented me on everyone in the healthcare team, what could be delegated to each individual, and how I could contact those who are not always already on our unit (i.e. the wound care nurse, sepsis nurse, resource nurse, etc.). Another thing that she went above and beyond to do was, she really made an effort to try and get me as much practice doing various nursing skills as possible. Moreover, a lot of her nursing practices that I observed as being positive, such as her cultural competence, respect towards patient of all backgrounds, and patient/staff advocacy had made an impact on me in regards to what I will bring along with me and utilize in my future practice as a registered