THE ROLE OF NURSE AS A MENTOR

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Role Of Nurse as a Mentor
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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Mentoring is important for novice nurses to build their careers. A proper mentoring
will guide them towards their career development along with job satisfaction, resulting in
improved quality of patient care. A mentor is an experienced nurse who shares her
knowledge and skill with the student nurses and guides them throughout their careers. This
paper aims to reflect on the role of a nurse as a mentor involved in guiding the mentees
towards their goal.
When I was in a clinical, I came across a nurse who used to mentor me. I always
enjoyed being mentored by her as she guided me and my fellow colleagues, towards our goal
and improve our competency. For mentoring us, she also had to upgrade her standard, acquire
enough knowledge and teaching skills to make us understand better and also solve our
problems quickly. She maintained a proper and sustainable work culture where all the
trainees felt and comfortable to share their issues and feedback. That greatly improved my
bonding with my mentor. She used to take extra classes once a month for the students who
were slow learners. She even called us to show a practical demonstration of insertion of
Urinary catheter, cleaning of Hemovac, wound cleaning and packing. She worked as a
mentor in the hospital for a tenure of 2 years, and within those two years, she taught us a lot
of things. She was like a role model, guiding us towards our success. Nurses are the backbone
of any healthcare, they are the ones a patient is directly involved with, so to deliver efficient
healthcare service to the patients, the nurses need to be trained with utmost care and priority.

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Mentorship is considered to be a very noble profession involved in guiding or
counseling a student and helping him reach his excellence in any profession. A good mentor
is included in the sharing of knowledge and experience to the others which helps them to
achieve their goals and reach an improved level of expertise(Moran & Banks, 2016). They act
as an advisor or coach by providing necessary advice, suggestion, guidance, and feedback to
the student and delivering proper action plans and ideas for succeeding in their field(Farrell,
2018). They help the students to upgrade their knowledge and skills, encourage them to get
out of their comfort zone and try something different and innovative. They also recommend
resources like books, workshop or other learning tools to help the mentees in personal
development and growth. A mentor can also act as a guide. The primary focus of a mentor
should be on the development of the mentee, both personally and professionally. A mentor
should be able to maintain confidentiality or privacy.
In every health care setting, there is a mentor or an experienced nurse who teaches the
novice nurses or other healthcare professionals(Tuomikoski et al, 2019). In my opinion,
mentorship in nursing is essential because a nurse is associated with patient care, so they need
to have the necessary skills and knowledge to serve the patients better and deliver improved
healthcare to them. That will incorporate a leadership ability within them, and in turn, they
will also be able to mentor other nurses in the future(Rylance et al, 2017).