MENTORING IN NURSING

PRACTICE

Name of the student :- Mrs. S.N.P.G.N.N.M. Somarathna

Student No:- WCNT0210
Submission Date:- 21/01/2023
Due date:- 21/01/2023
 WHAT IS MENTORSHIP

• Mentoring is a reciprocal and collaborative at-will relationship that most often

occurs between a senior and junior employee for the purpose of the mentee’s
growth, learning, and career development.
• Often the mentor and mentee are internal to an organization, and there is an
emphasis on organizational goals, culture, career goals, advice on professional
development, and work-life balance. 
• Effective mentors often act as role models and sounding boards for their mentee
and provide guidance to help them reach their goals.
• Mentoring can be formal or informal. In an informal environment, mentees set
goals, but they are usually not measurable and the relationships are
unstructured. For a formal mentoring relationship, there are actionable and
measurable goals defined and set with determined requirements.
 DEFINITIONS OF MENTORSHIP

• Mentoring is a broad caring role that encompasses formal or informal

supporting, guiding, coaching, teaching, role modelling, counselling,
advocating, networking, and sharing. Mentoring occurs within and/or outside
the clinical setting and includes personal and career guidance.
• Mentoring has been defined as a one-to-one long-term trusting relationship
(spanning months to many years) that develops over time between a novice
and a more experienced practitioner and promotes support during transition
periods, teaching/learning, increased coping skills, and a safe environment for
sharing and discovery.
 MENTORSHIP

The three A's of mentoring are availability, active listening, and

analysis.
• Availability means that a mentor should offer or avail you of their
time, experience, encouragement, feedback, and advice.
• Active listening means your mentor should be quiet and attentive
when you're speaking, and not distracted.
• Analysis means good mentors should be able to analyse what
you're saying, your situation, and provide detailed feedback or
solutions so that you can grow.
• Typically the three C's of mentorship are consultant, counselor, and
cheerleading. A mentor that is a consultant is an expert in their field.
The counselor listens and provides constructive feedback. A good
mentor is also a cheerleader providing enthusiastic support and
encouraging you to achieve your goals.
 WHO IS MENTOR

• A mentor is an experienced practitioner who establishes a caring relationship

with a novice nurse as a trusted counsellor, guide, role model, teacher, and
friend, providing opportunities for personal and career development, growth,
and support to the less experienced individual.
 TRAITS OF A GOOD MENTOR INCLUDE

Although there are many types of mentors, there are some key signs to look
out for to ensure that a mentor is right for you and your situation. Some of
the skills and qualities that a good mentor should possess include:
• Enthusiastic
• Shows mutual respect
• Active listener
• Provides honest feedback
• Experienced in your field
• Interested in helping you
 WHO IS MENTEE

• A mentee is a novice nurse or an experienced individual changing jobs or

careers who benefits from the caring support, wisdom, guidance, role
modelling, networking skills and sharing of a more experienced nurse willing
to help the novice in his/her personal and career journey.
 BENIFITS TO BEING A MENTOR

Validate the mentor’s leadership skills

• Become recognize as an advisor
• Learn to clearly communicate
• Gaining new perspectives
• Giving back and finding new talents
• Use your real-life experiences to help develop new talent in the Salesforce
ecosystem
 BENIFITS TO BEING A MENTEE

Learn the workplace

• Problem solving
• Knowledge transfer
• Attain personal and professional goals
• Develop innovative and creative ideas
• Increase the level of efficiency and productivity
• Becime a manager of choice through enhanced leadership skills
 BARRIERS TO MENTORING

• Lack of faculty sensitivity

• Lack of academic preparation
• Cultural miscommunication
• Feeling of isolation
• Fear of failure
• Difficulty in establishing peer relationships
• Lack of professional role models
 THE IMPORTANCE OF MENTORSHIP IN
NURSING
• Mentoring is a vital process of nursing
• Nurses teach and help other nurses by mentoring which is critical to maintain
competency , expertise and promote leadership
• As a beginner nurse, there are so many things to learn, and you might not know where
to start. That’s where a mentor comes in. A mentor can help you navigate the world of
nursing and provide guidance and support as you grow in your career.
• Mentoring can also help you in professional development and growth. A mentor can
advise everything from landing your first job to balancing work and life. And because
mentorships are built on trust, they can also be a great source of emotional support and
role model.
• Mentorship provides support , assistant and guidance to nurses and nursing students
 THE STORY IN MY EXPERIENCE FOR
MONTEE

• During my nursing student period in my first ward visit, I met the ward sister
who worked in Teaching Hospital Anuradhapura orthopedic male and female
ward
• That day I went to the ward with very fera and stressed because of this was my
first experience as a student nurse with many patients and such injuries
• In that day ward sister warmly welcomed our group and introduced herself
• She introduced about the ward situation and other staff of this ward and
arranged ward round to explain each and everything related to the ward
condition and specially patients who staying long period of time in this ward
• The goal of our relationship was creating nurse who was fulfil with good
knowledge , good experience , good skills for procedures and good attitudes
• In that time I worked with happy in orthopedic ward with my mentor
• I did my procedures wkth the supervision of my mentor, she gave me some
knowledge regarding procedures and how to continue nurse patient relationship
with good manner
• She explained what are the types of injuries and how they applied dressings,
some procedures ,further prevention of injuries ,dressing types, how they handle
the patient with some procedures im ward situation .
• Examples giving bed bath, head wash, personal care, wound dressing,how to
prepare the patient before surgery and aftet surgery and how nurses should
maintain patients condition and aome restrictions related to surgery .
• The mentor should have a good level of knowledge , support and conflict on
roles and responsibilities
• I think that my mentor had a god level of knowledge , support and conflict on
roles and responsibilities
• I completed my training period with good marks and now I am Registered Nurse
in DGH Polonnaruwa and I also play a key role of mentor for my junior nursing
staff like my mentor to give best knowledge for nursing practice for poor patients
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