NURS 325 Mentoring
Powerful Mentor: Powerful Nurse
The success of a new nurse can be improved and accelerated by the utilization of a mentor. An experienced nurse can ease the social angst and acceptance associated with being the new team member. A mentor performs the tasks of preceptor by teaching all of the technical aspects of nursing in a specific service area, but also instructs the mentee as to the structure of the work environment and how to navigate it. The mentor looks for assignments that will accentuate and stretch the experience level of the mentee. A good mentor will also attempt to learn from the mentee. This builds a bond between them and ultimately strengthens the nursing team as a whole (Benner).
A good nurse is a mentee for life, always learning and improving their craft. A good mentor is always seeking those interested in learning and then sharing experience that cannot be gleaned from a book.
British nurse in nurses' station.
Czech nursing students.
The American student nurse Miss Lydia Monroe of Ri...I have been blessed with several superb mentors. They were not always assigned to me. I often had to root them out and pester them until they realized that I was worth their time and effort. "A mentor has commonly been regarded as someone who encourages and offers direction and advice to a protégé or novice". (Kilgallon) By establishing a network of experienced individuals in the work place, the role of mentor could be expanded to a group to increase the skill set and experience available (Grossman). To put this concept into biblical perspective, "Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." Proverbs 27:17 (Zondervan). A sort of institutional or professional memory is developed with mentoring. The new nurses bring fresh ideas and concepts form school and meld that with the experience and advanced technical knowledge of the experienced mentor,