Question

1/What Makes a Mentoring Relationship Successful?

2/What are the benefits of mentorship relationships?

Answer 1

According to the Academy of Medical- surgical Nurses " mentoring is a reciprocal and collaborative learning relationship between two, sometimes more, individuals with mutual goals and shares accountability for the outcomes and asuccess of the relationship."

1.

• successful mentoring relationship must be built on trust, mentor and mentee must trust each other.
• mentor and mentee must be willing to share both unpleasent and plesent informations and experiences about themselfs.
• mentor and mentee must give constructive feedbacks , include negative and positive fedbacks.
• mentor need to let mentee know that they believe the mentee will succeed.
• mentor should give their time, energy,and material support to teach, guide, assist, council and inspire the mentee.

2.

• mentoring can foster leadership skills.
• guidence to overcome first year chellenge [ provide new nurses opportunities to embed themselves in the new employment environment]
• improve wellbeing and patient outcome [ nurses who are feeling overwelmed can take advices and help from their mentors]
• commitment to social jestice [ mentors can help other nurses to achieve social justice through compassionate care and considering cross cultural perspective of patients and other nurses]
• building knowledgable nurse leaders
• mentoring relationship inside healthcare organization can help the organizhations to retain nurses and reducing the cost of turnover.