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.…
As one comes closer to matriculation in a given nurse practitioner (NP) program, the necessity to plan for the future is essential. These plans must include certification, licensure, and scope of practice. Amy is a new graduate from a family nurse practitioner (FNP) program and wishes to relocate from her home state of Tennessee to Missouri as she wants to practice in a rural area.…
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High school mentor programs have the ability to create a sense of belonging and security for students who might otherwise go unnoticed in high school. It is through the contact that the mentors have with the mentees that connections and friendships can be made that have the ability to last a lifetime. In creating effective, caring mentor programs, schools have the ability to make a lasting impact on…
They say that everything happens for a reason. Every person that comes into our life and leaves a mark on it, stays there on a long term for a reason. Some people become our work mates, others our friends, or teachers, and very few of them turn into our mentors. A mentor is a person that, by age, is more knowledgeable, has more experience and can guide with his advice a person who is willing to absorb his wisdom. From this point of view, a mentor goes far beyond the professional coaching, becoming a support in different life aspects of the person he's mentoring.…
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I understand that the benefits of mentoring are that young people can be guided in the right direction to make informed choices and decisions. This will help create a better future for them and for society as a whole and will avoid young people having regrets about making the wrong choices later in life.…
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.…
Mentoring is a long-standing form of training, learning and development and an increasingly popular tool for supporting personal development.…
Patients—and us! Effective nurse preceptorships provide the flexibility for the close, trusting relationships needed to develop the new graduate nurse to his or her fullest potential. Students benefit by having a complete nursing experience over several weeks, allowing them to manage a full patient care load, refine their clinical skills, gain experience in organizing their care and setting priortiteis, and, overall, have many hours to use the nursing process to plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care and patient outcomes. Nursing internship programs build a novice nurse’s confidence in their ability to provide safe and effective patient care. Having a mentor and team of other individuals to support you during this learning curve in your career will boost your confidence as a practicing nurse. Graduate nurses who participate in internship programs tend to have an easier transition to becoming a professional than students who did not participate in internship programs. Meeting with experienced nurse leaders will help you learn how to apply the theoretical nursing principals you learned in nursing school to real-world situations. Evidence-based practice is encouraged in internship programs and your preceptor can help you uncover how research is disseminated into nursing practice. You have heard a lot about holistic nursing care and your mentor will help you develop the skills you need to have to provide holistic nursing…
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.…
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,…
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,…
Pulsford, D. et al. 2002. Are mentors ready to make a difference? A survey of mentors’ attitudes towards nurse education. Nurse Education Today. 22, 6,439-446.…
I believe that the purpose of a mentor is to ask questions and challenge the person being mentored, but at the same time to provide the person with guidance and encouragement. An example of this in my workplace would be when we…