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Personal Experience: The Role Of Mentoring In Nursing

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1.0 INTRODUCTION

I was qualified as a trained nurse about 10 years ago. I have been working in Pediatrics Ward, Outpatient Department and in the Operating Theatre (OT). Currently, I am working in Obstetrics and Gynecology (O&G) ward after successful in my midwifery course 2010. New trained nurse with midwifery will post into our unit every year. The senior nurse will appointed to be a mentor for them and now this is my turn to get the responsibilities for guided and orientated the newly staff in our unit.

Mentoring is a complex term but as in health profession, it is a voluntary professional relationship between a mentor and mentee. Based on The Nursing and Midwifery Council (2008a), have mention that the role of a mentor as someone who …show more content…

In the learning process identifying my learner needs is one of the important things for me to find which procedure my mentee weakest is. After that, I have to find the weakest procedure and what type of learner she is. As a mentor I also have to find which learning theories and learning style that I have to use and suitable to apply on my mentee. In this study, I considered Sandra as a newly trained staff as she has no working experience in Obstetrics & Gynecology unit and I am focusing to teach her a necessary skill in order for her to function effectively and skillfully as a part of maternity nursing. Clinical experience is important in developing a nurse learning because through this experience will help them develop technical, psychomotor, inter-personal and communications skills (Billings & Halstead, 1998: Dunn et al, 2000: Adams, 2002: Chan, 2002: Banning et al, …show more content…

She also can read relevant books or journals available in our unit and hospital library in order to gain more knowledge regarding the procedure and other health development. I also suggested to her to attend relevant national or international conference as it will help her to gain the latest health development.

It is impossible for me to always be with Sandra to monitor her work in this unit therefore, I have appointed a second mentor (Appendix 5) and introduce her to Sandra. I appointed Shelly (this is pseudonym) as a second mentor because she is also one of the senior staff nurse in this unit and an expert in abdominal palpation in pregnancy mother. She has a working experience of eight years, and been appointed as a mentor for the past two years. I am confident that Shelly will be able to monitor and assist Sandra in performing her work very well.

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