Upon realizing my apprehension on the very first day at clinical, there was a meeting
Upon realizing my apprehension on the very first day at clinical, there was a meeting
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.…
As I started clinical, I was anxious and I did not know what to expect. The feeling of not knowing, what to expect initially and being my first nurse Practitioner clinical was a little…
According to LaVant and Shandley’s definition (as cited in Gibson, 2014), mentoring refers to the process which intentionally exists between many people that involves a mentor acting as a guide to the mentee and makes them fit in a new environment. Many approaches and programs have been placed in ensuring that all students get the same level of higher education. However, all these approaches are limited by margination and institutionalized racism towards African American students. Mentoring has brought a new dimension and solution to such problems.…
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.…
My interviewee gave me a lot of background information, as to what my life would really be like. Like him, I plan on becoming a surgical PA in a hospital setting. Which will give me the opportunity to see patients pre- and post-operative. His day begins at 6:30am. Upon arriving to the hospital, he obtains the listing of patients on the general surgery service from the Chief Resident, which is a fourth year medical student. After reviewing the list, he goes to see each patient and checks their development. Whether their health is progressing, declining or needs surgery. Once all the patients are seen, he then reports to the Attending Physician, and gives a report of…
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,…
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,…
care to patients. EBP, as a concept, was first introduced in medicine as “. . .the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in…
I have been blessed with several superb mentors. They were not always assigned to me. I often had to root them out and pester them until they realized that I was worth their time and effort. "A mentor has commonly been regarded as someone who encourages and offers direction and advice to a protégé or novice". (Kilgallon) By establishing a network of experienced individuals in the work place, the role of mentor could be expanded to a group to increase the skill set and experience available (Grossman). To put this concept into biblical perspective, "Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." Proverbs 27:17 (Zondervan). A sort of institutional or professional memory is developed with mentoring. The new nurses bring fresh ideas and concepts form…
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.…
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.…
Department of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, MA 02118, USA. sramani@bu.edu…
A mentor is a guide who can help the mentee to find the right direction and who can help them to develop solutions to career issues. Mentors rely upon having had similar experiences to gain an empathy with the mentee and an understanding of their issues. Mentoring provides the mentee with an opportunity to think about career options and progress. (MentorSET 2008). The NMC (2008) say a NMC mentor is a registrant who, following successful completion of an NMC approved mentor preparation programme – or comparable preparation that has been accredited by an AEI as meeting the NMC mentor requirements – has achieved the knowledge, skills and competence required to meet the defined outcomes. A mentor is a mandatory requirement for pre-registration nursing and midwifery students.…
What is next----In my next clinical session i m hoping to apply everything that I learned on The first day and will try my best to further explore what can I learn to help me to build a strong foundation for my future dream career as a nurse.…