Effective Mentoring

46). The registered nurse mentor will acts as teachers by sharing knowledge and expertise, counselors by providing psychological support. May act as interveners by providing access to resources and protection, and sponsors by promoting the prestige as he or she facilitates self- reliance. This will provide the mentor with self-assurance, job approval, promotions, managerial skills, and problem-solving skills (Gordon, 2000)

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC 2008a), defines “the role of a mentor as someone who facilitates learning, supervises and assesses learners in practice setting.” The mentor is a key support to students in practice, this is where students apply their knowledge, learn key skills and achieve the required competence for registration.

To be a good mentor you have to have great qualities like being helpful and being really good at giving good constructive criticism. Whomever you're mentoring should receive information that is both positive and negative. You want to makes sure you give pros and cons so that your mentee can learn from them. (Patterson) Some social activities that you can do in mentoring programs include talking about life experiences, having lunch together, and visiting the mentor's home for a bonding experience. (Wexler) Although most mentoring programs usually have short durations and are claimed to be a “waste of money,” they are beneficial to girls because they prevent peer pressure, diseases, and pregnancies; encourage girls to be more mannerable, respectful, and ladylike; and results in kids being more likely to graduate high school and attend college.

Mentors should reflect confidence, hope, optimism, and resiliency as well as the ability to promote others and their strengths. This sounds uncannily like the descriptions of an authentic leader that we have been reading about in our literature.

For many clinical experiences, the instructor assigns a nurse mentor to work with the student for that clinical experience. Some nurse mentors may have negative feelings about having to mentor students, may not take the time to explain things to students, or teach them how to do nursing care. The nurse mentor has the potential to positively or negatively affect the student’s learning experience based on their willingness to work with and teach nursing students.

In many texts and films from thousands of years ago to modern literature today the mentor archetype has been expressed. This archetype is common in many movies, for example in the Lion King, where Simba is taught how to rule the kingdom by his father, or in Rocky where he is taught how to become a better fighter by his coach Micky, and even in the Hunger Games where Katniss and Peeta are taught how to survive by their mentor Haymitch. One thing in common between these three films is the mentor is teaching their student how to become better at what they do. The question I asked myself is what is the most important part about being human that we emphasize with the mentor archetype? I’ve done some research on the mentor archetype to see more in

A review of the relevant research specific to the question of the effectiveness of mentorship programs was conducted (see evidence summary table, Appendix A). The bulk of the published studies evaluating the implementation and effectiveness of mentoring programs for newly registered nurses demonstrated the beneficial effects mentorship has on job satisfaction and retention rates (Edwards, Hawker, Carrier & Rees, 2015; Zhang et al., 2015).

Mentoring employs similar methods as coaching; however a more personal relationship is formed between the mentor and mentee. A mentor, as Zey (1984) writes, is ‘a person who oversees the career and development of another person, usually a junior, through teaching, counselling, providing psychological support, protecting and at times promoting or sponsoring’.

The goal of mentoring in military organizations is to help junior personnel reach their full potential by having senior personnel help develop them, and pass on their practical expertise and professional knowledge to personnel who are committed to advancement and success (United States, 1995). A thriving mentoring program will enhance our overall professionalism and help meet the future needs of our organization. In my current job, I am charged with implementing a mentoring program where officers, enlisted personnel, and civilian employees can pass on not only career development guidance to junior personnel, but also the principles, traditions, shared values, and lessons of our profession.

"Mentoring is a process in which a person who is experienced, wise and trusted, guides an inexperienced individual to develop to their full potential" (Carr, and Gidman, 2008). There is a mentor I would never forget in my life. Although she has passed away, her good work in my life shaped the way I approach my profession today. I remembered coming to the facility on my first day and the supervisor approached two nurses to give me orientation but they refused but the third nurse accepted, with an opened heart she equipped me with most of the tools I needed to be an effective nurse in this profession. All the qualities of a good nurse I was taught in the school were all in her. She had communication skills, emotional stability, empathy, attention to detail, interpersonal skills, physical endurance, and problem solving skills. Sometimes we think these qualities are design for nurses to patients, but it is not. These are characters that should go with us wherever we are. It should have extended to co-nurses as well and my mentor had it all. Although accent was a little difficult for both of us, with her endurance skills and someone so familiar

In this essay I aim to reflect and critically analyse my completion of the learning development plan and to identify how the skills and knowledge that I have gained as a mentor will enable me to lead learning in my area of practice. I will be using the What model of reflection (Driscoll 2000) throughout this essay.

Good mentors and coaches have the ability to make or break a nurses, especially student nurses, will to drive in nursing. Good mentors do not just tell a nurse the answers or what to do they should be a light leading them in the right direction (Raisbeck, 2012). It is important that a new nurse or a nurse new to an area develop decision making skills so being a light allows the nurse to develop these skills and feel confident doing it. There are a few qualities that can define a poor mentor. These qualities are having their own agenda, helping others rather than addressing the needs of the mentee, takes offense when the mentee does not follow what they are told by the mentor, and transferring their problems to the mentee (Williams, & Grant,

Due to Brian Tracy- an American author - to build a positive and productive mentoring program, one should bear in their mind that this is not a one-way relationship. Whether being in the position of a mentor or a mentee, there are few key points that might be useful in order to make the mentoring relationship successful.

understanding who a mentor should be? How the organisation selects them and what is there

1. I want to be a mentor because of how much fun it seems like it is. I also want to help people that need it and maybe might not show it. I can listen to people well and get what they are feeling. Some skills that will make me an effective mentor are video editing, I am good with technology, and how well I can understand people.