Question

What is mentoring? Why do nurses need mentors?
summary of each section of this Paper.
1.   Mentoring in Nursing
2.   Benefits of Mentoring
3.   Mentoring Relationships
4.   Characteristics of a Healthy Mentor-Mentee Relationship
5.   Mentoring Cycle
6.   Reflection in Mentoring
7.   Barriers to Mentoring
8.   Give a brief contrast of a teacher vs mentor, vs friend, vs instructor.

Answer 1

Answer:-

Mentoring is a relationship between two people in which a more experienced or more knowledgeble person guide another towards reaching their full potential in a specified subject. Mentors are needed for nurses for their career development and integrity.we can learn many working skills and career knowledge from experienced nurses.

1.Mentoring in nursing.

Nurses mentors are needed to guidance and share their clinical experience to new nurses to improve their skills and knowledge and confidence in their professional role.

2.Benefits of mentoring

1.Exposure to new ideas and approaches to improve their career

2.increasing your confidence

3.Develop leadership &management qualities

4. Career progression

5.personal and professional development

6.self esteem and confidence.

3.Mentoring relationship

Mentoring relationship goal is to guide, give advice and support to the more experienced persons to less experienced person. The purpose of mentoring relationship is to tap in to the existing knowledge and skills and experience of high performing employee and transfer their skills to newer or less experienced inorder to develop their careers.

4.Characteristics of healthy menty mentor relationship

The mentor should be, direct and honest and provide an objective perspective. Good mentors are enthuastic people, enjoying the they play in helping mentee achieve their goal.

5.Mentoring cycle

Successful mentoring relationship has go through four phases like preparation, negotiations, enabling growth and closure

6.Reflection in mentoring

Many of students community has benefited from mentoring in their respective field of study.without mentoring no students will be able to achieve high in their profession or study.

7. Barriers to mentoring  

The major effective barriers to mentorship includes

*mismatched expectations between mentor and mentee

*Lack of time

8.A teacher's has a greater knowledge than a students, Amentor has greater perspective. Mentor generally doesnot become a friend until two of you are closer to equal footing.An instructor is a qualified person who will show you how to use the equipments, someone whose job is to teach you a skill or sport.mentoring is a long term process based on mutual trust and respect.

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