Teaching in Nursing: Importance of Mentoring and Role Models

This report focuses on the importance of teaching in nursing, the significance of mentoring in clinical teaching-learning, and the attributes of a mentor that are crucially required for providing relevant health teaching to the patients. It also discusses the role model of behaviors and the functions of nurse educators. The report concludes with recommendations for new innovative programs to overcome challenges in nursing education.

Teaching In
Nursing

Table of Contents
Introduction .........................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ......................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion ...........................................................................................................................................7
References and Citations......................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Today, one of the major challenge that can be considered in mentoring health care
professionals is to provide guidance and learning in order to tackle world wide health challenges
and also to serve in complicated and complex health care atmosphere. To ensure that they are
eligible to practice in such environment. In order to fit in criteria, nurse practitioners may face
ethical and professionals issues also (Dias, Hapsari, & Adang, 2018). The nurse teaching consists
two essential part that are theoretical and practical training. The nurse education is carried it in the
clinical environments. Therefore, it has been considered as integral part. Nursing is a performance
based filed. The highlighted challenges in developing countries are inadequate tutoring of
healthcare professionals, lack of motivation and opportunities, disturbed small mix and so on. This
report majorly focus on the magnitude of teaching in nursing and also major attributes of mentor
that should be provided to patients and also role model of values, believes and behaviour.
MAIN BODY
Significance Of Mentoring In Clinical Teaching-learning
In nursing, the teaching are crucially required for providing relevant health teaching to the
patients, and to role model the professional values and behaviours mentoring might help them to
cultivate, retain and diversify the workforce. The process of mentoring is similar like a old school
pattern that may involves learning and understanding of theories, principles, acts and models which
should be practised and followed by each individual in health care system. It may also help in
developing personality of nurses such as being polite and composure towards patients, principle
which are applied in the relation of patients and healthcare, code of conduct and so on.
Teaching also provide nurses to learn Hence it may help to them to develop new skill and
also foster their leadership skills that nurse practitioners require to safe and secure larger roles in
development, designing as well as delivering quality of care. (Mfuh, & Lukong,2019).As per the
studies of Owens, 2017, it has been extracted that training of nurse may provide them discipline,
punctualities and also reduce cost of turnover.
Educating nurses is essential because as their filed of work is considered to be challenging
and in some cases they have to deal it by their own, in order to meet needs of patients. Indeed
nurses are totally responsible are crucially required for providing relevant health teaching to the
patients, and to role model the professional values and behaviours for teaching and to provide better
understanding of prevention and management of disease and their health conditions.
Many individuals lack of knowledge in regards with health care. Studies concluded that M

1mentoring is considered to be effective and efficient tool procedure in health care system, therefore
it enhance skills and knowledge of healthcare professionals. This following process includes the art
which is associated with technology and science learning through inspiring training, coaching,
guiding and also providing a lead path way for an individual to a place of cognition. (Owens, 2017)
The clinical teaching may endorse skills and also create the opportunity for learners. It may
also foster their critical thinking skills. In clinical teaching using of personal attributes such as
caring, confidence, patience and also integrity that can facilitate the learning. Studies further
conclude that the nurse should be co-ordinator, a great communicator, team player, innovator in
order to become a idol nurse practitioner. The mentors and learner are considered as enactors of
academics of educational reform. As there are ample of evidence that are example of effective
teachings and mentoring that effect an affirmative impact on a perspective mentor's pedagogical
learning and practices.
Attributes Of A Mentor That Are Crucially Required For Providing Relevant Health Teaching To
The Patients
The successful mentoring of nurse practitioners must be formulated and designed on trust,
exposure of self disclosure, positivity or affirmation, determination, willingness to learn something,
interest, faith and skills in attaining and giving feedbacks (Coyne,and et.al., 2018). Hence, there are
general guidelines which should be followed in order to establish relationship, they are as follows
 Transparency with in nurses and their mentors.
 Nurses should communicate with their mentors in regards with any particular doubts
and queries while undergoing through training.
 Motivation should be provided through mentor to each mentor.
The nurse mentor highly underpin classroom theories which should be applied to an individual.
There are effective methods of teaching that are implemented through nurse mentor in order to
provide them best learning though theoretical process. But in contrast, hence it is complicated when
it comes to real action world, then the theories are implemented. For example, the evidence based
study state that nurse usually undergo ethical dilemma in their professional life. The ethical
dilemma can be defined as when there is two or more than two solution of problem (Coyne,and
et.al., 2018).
functions of nurse educators
 The role of nurse educators are as follows
 Demonstrating, explaining and informing

 Initiating, directing and Administration
 Unifying team members
 Provided security and safety to each health care professionals
 Evaluating, reporting and reporting
 Organising and management
The skills coordinating may beneficence a nurse in management of care plans, the process of
together fragmented care, also demonstrate and prepares discharge plan, acute acre plan as well as
liaison in health care team. The communication may help a learner as establishing a rapport,
establishing therapeutic and helping relationship, aware of verbal as well as non verbal
communication, assertive communicator. The studies concluded that the nurse undergoes in training
under the learning domains that are cognitive learning, psychomotor learning and affective learning.
In this the cognitive learning requires new knowledge and interventions that are introduced to
learners in order to facilitate them and provide quality of service and care to patients. The
psychomotor can be represented as new physical intervention and skills and lastly the affcetive
learning acquiring changes values and attitudes.
Role model of behaviours
In the article of Price & Price (2019) it has been state that clinical learning can bring out role
model with in the personality of healthcare professionals. Learning can also provide theoretical
knowledge of dealing with patients by implementation of role model practice. The role model can
be defined as faculty members illustrate clinical knowledge and skills, models as well as articulate
expertise thinking skills and also manifest positive impact on professional characteristics of an
individual. The mentors and men-tee are considered as enactors of academics of educational reform.
As there are ample of evidence that can be effective teachings and mentoring that can also have a
affirmative impact on a perspective mentor's pedagogical learning and practices.
Teaching may involve numerous of learning in context of their behaviour and attitudes
towards workplace, and the knowledge and skill that are essential. It may help in providing
knowledge of management and self care learning to patients. Along with this other factors such
patients nurses relationship gets improved. (Dias, Hapsari, & Adang, 2018). It has state
exaggerated from the studies, the nurse teaching include demonstrate knowledge of technologies
and medicines. The behavioural model helps nurse practitioners to attain skills that may help an
individual while practising in the real world. To make the attendants unrevealed and proficient in

calling, the preparation goes through with a few stages and experiences of various difficulties with
come through in the way of preparing. The experiential model of learning and information in
respects with drugs, that may cover enormous segment of prescriptions instruction that can be
additionally summed up as "watch one, do one, spread one" saying. As this procedure or reasoning
of instructing made as conspicuous at that point, learning measure. The new intercession likewise
incorporate the E-training, subsequently it include distances learning for those medical attendants
who are far because of pandemic. Additionally furthermore, it has been positive careful good
examples have been addressed to heighten the learning and comprehension of careful professions.
The specialist are significantly centre around the destinations just as three significant powers
which are finished up as strategy powers, administrative powers including experts powers. The
wellbeing experts on request to work on the presentation and to give best help to the patients they
discrete and dispatched new arrangement and rule which may influence the development and
medical care office just as advancement of targetted populace thought is related with it. According
to the investigations it has been additionally express that As the imprisonment of attendants can be
isolated into three jobs that can be accept in the convey show up, care. It can specifically
autonomous and the clinical consideration realted just as jobs which are free (Gutiérrez, and
Morais,2017).
Additionally, the autonomous job can be portrayed as the medical attendants can be start and
the arrangement which is under made an as the move which are taken by medical caretakers without
the request for doctor and direction can prompt genuine motivations, to react the patients needs well
it is obligatory and regular to act suddenly on spot however because of request of higher society
they are intended to be limited some place in occurring of depicted method. The model which give
the information and realizing which has been show to them that how to handle and lift patients
information in respects with sickness forestall and intercession that may follow up how to oversee
intense disease. The model that can be utilized Person training .
The experiential model of learning and knowledge in regards with dugs and pharmacopoeias
that cover large portion of medicines education that can be also summarized as “ watch one, do one,
spread one” adage. As this technique or philosophy of teaching made as prominent at the time,
learning process. The new intervention also include the E- education, hence it involve distances
learning for those nurses who are far due to pandemic.
Also in addition to this, it has been positive surgical role models have been represented to
escalate the learning and understanding of surgical careers.
It has been concluded through studies that nurse practitioners highly aims on the targets and
three essential forces that are policy, professionals and managerial forces. In order to improve the

performance and to provide best health care service to patients, they discrete and introduced new
policies and legislation that can affect the development and growth of health care system.
(Gutiérrez, & Morais,2017). The model which provide the knowledge and learning which has been
demonstrate to them that how to tackle and boost patients knowledge in regards with disease
prevent and intervention that may follow up how to manage acute illness. The model that can be
used Person education of individual.
For example, the report may have concluded evidence based study that fourteen nurses
colleagues with a broad range of experience in teaching demonstrate diabetes education,
paediatrics, general self care tips, rehabilitation, asthma education for young children, osteotomy
and so on. In order rot demonstrate the enough and quality of education digital medium also used.
As per the experience of one of nurses concluded that patients learning and education is a
responsible task of an individual.(Dias, Hapsari, & Adang, 2018) The author from London also
concluded that teaching patients is not a rocket science, rather than it is a sophisticated skill that
takes a large amount of practice and also determination as well as self commitment. Hence, the
patient education also include plan of care, prevention of acute illness, procedure of operation, side
effects of any kind of treatments, conveying attain information in rereads with medical history and
much more. it becomes complicated and challenging for nurse practitioners.
As per the studies, it has been concluded that major changes in Asia health care system and
also practice the atmosphere that termed to require equal profound difference in the training and
education of nurses before they get permanent. Hence it may need a advance understanding of and
also experience in health care management, it may also improve quality methods, recognisance of
role and value of nurses with in sector. (Bahar, and et.al.,2017). Several efforts made in order to
improve and evaluate the effectiveness of inter personal academics in improving consequence and
outcomes that include student's satisfaction and can able to modify collaborative behaviour with bin
individuals. The studies may also demonstrate the skilled and professional nurses are required in the
medical field in order to improve and reverential new environmental challenges.
RECOMMENDATION
As per the studies, it has been primary responsibility to analyse and plan of resources that
allocated for general nurse education. Their efforts may vary widely and greatly. At federal level,
there should be presence of assistance that can be characterised in both terms that are in funding as
well as teaching aids which are important in nurse training and education. Shortages are often
represented and viewed trough members of the nurse practitioners community, that also there are
ned of rehabilitation nurses specifically formulated in the basis of nurse edactional programes
placement cell/ it may create the opportunities for young nurse pacttitioners to make their career in

nursing filed.
CONCLUSION
It has been recommended that in order to overcome such challenges new innovative
programs should be conducted that may include basics of training, academic progression and also
constant competencies. Majority of nurses should be provided learning of management of acute
illness, complex and complicated situations and managed care system with not one mentor, with
multiple health care practitioners. According to the report, it has been presumed that eventual fate of
admittance to standard of essential nature of care and schooling of attendant may depend number of
experienced medical caretakers.
At present there can be number of obstructions affected by environment like Covid19 and
other transferable infections and so forth the medical attendant specialists should pre-prepared for
each challenge that are emerge and furthermore can emerge in future. The preparation and
instruction is importation in their course of obligation since it might encourage to them upgrade
their abilities and furthermore assist them with creating abilities like basic reasoning, critical
thinking just as dynamic, relational abilities, etc. Alongside fundamental instruction, other deep
rooted discovering that can be considered as scholarly movement and proceeding with skill. The
instruction can likewise serve to them to see how to handle and manage confounded circumstance
and organize care with group of medical care experts. It likewise gainful to screen their own
advantage of life and assist them with being centre in their calling.
Obstructions that can be seen at present that there are deficiency of labour force which has
been noticed. According to the board of trustees needed to twofold the quantity of medical
caretakers by 2020. To accomplish this objective, will its need to beat boundaries and difficulties. It
has been prescribed that to defeat such difficulties new inventive projects ought to be directed that
may incorporate nuts and bolts of preparing, scholarly movement and furthermore steady skills.
Greater part of attendant ought to be given learning of the board of intense ailment, intricate and
confounded circumstances and oversaw care framework with not one guide, with various medical
services professionals. They additionally should guarantee and show understandingly of basic and
framework thinking designs, standard of progress and care the board.

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