Question

What is your understanding of mentoring? Why do nurses need mentors?
Give a brief summary of each section of this Paper. DO NOT copy-and-paste the paper.

1. Mentoring in Nursing (1 points)
2. Benefits of Mentoring (1 points)
3. Mentoring Relationships (1.5 points)
4. Characteristics of a Healthy Mentor-Mentee Relationship (1.5 points)
5. Mentoring Cycle (1 points)
6. Reflection in Mentoring (1 points)
7. Barriers to Mentoring (1.5 points)
8. Give a brief contrast of a tutor vs mentor, vs friend, vs instructor. (1.5 points)

Answer 1

Mentoring in Nursing

Mentorship in Nursing is a process in which a more experienced and trained professional helps to guide, advice, counsel and provide continuing support that will help a less experienced nurse in their learning and development process. This method helps junior nurses acquire skills, knowledge and get motivated from experienced nurses or managers and develop helping relationship or nurturing process.

Benefits of Mentoring

Mentoring helps Increased confidence, higher self awareness encouraged and empowered in personal development, exposure to new ways of thinking, giving and receiving feedback, lower levels of anxiety,employee engagement and retention, job satisfaction and positive company culture.

Mentoring Relationships

Mentoring relationship is a relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps to guide a less experienced or less knowledgeable person. It is a learning and development partnership between someone with vast experience and someone who wants to learn.

The mentor's role is to guide, to give advice, and to support the mentee. A mentor can help a person (mentee) improve his or her abilities and skills through observation, assessment, modeling, and by providing guidance. To established successful mentor-mentee relationships the following 4 points are necessary.

Characteristics of a Healthy Mentor-Mentee Relationship

1. The Alliance

2. Empathy and Related Constructs

3. Positive Relationship Expectations

4. Cultural Adaptations

5. Mentor Skills and Experience

6. Homework and Practice

Mentoring Cycle

Stage 1: preparation

Set expectations. Establish foundation for successful mentoring relationship.

Stage 2: Negotiation

Agree on expectations. Set working agreements.

Stage 3: Enabling

Work towards accomplishing learning goals.

Stage 4: Closure

Focus on closing formal relationship. Redefine relationship moving forward.

Reflection in Mentoring

The benefits of a positive mentoring experience are rewarding both for the mentor and mentee. Mentoring program offered mentorship for nurses at health care centre and led to improved recruitment, retention, and an organizational culture of engagement. Mentoring provides an opportunity to make a difference in the life of a mentee in whatever workforce setting.

Barriers to Mentoring

(1) Mismatched expectations between mentor and mentee,

(2) Lack of available mentors in PHM,

(3) Lack of time/compensation for PHM mentors, and

(4) Geographic separation between mentor and mentee.

Give a brief contrast mentor, vs friend, vs instructor.

Mentor is a person or friend who guides a less experienced person by building trust and modeling positive behaviors. An effective mentor understands that his or her role is to be dependable, engaged, authentic, and tuned into the needs of the mentee.

Friend is a person with whom one has a bond of mutual affection and have a strong liking for and trust in another person.

An instructor is one who instructs you on how to accomplish a task. And that have their own classes and students.