Peer Mentoring In A Nursing Program: A Case Study

“We must find time to thank those who made a difference in our lives.” John F Kennedy. The people in our lives who impact us the most and help us through difficult circumstances are mentors. Mentors are the people who help you through new and confusing situations. Throughout Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare conveys the idea that the Nurse is a mentor to Juliet when she gives her advice on her relationship with Romeo and Paris.

On the other hand, mentoring is both past and future-oriented; it can be cross-organizational, cross-departmental, and virtual (McGuire, 2014, p.132). In fact, in his own experience of being a mentor, Dr. David McGuire used to ask his mentees about their career goals and assisted them to determine those goals if not yet fully known; he also used to give them homework at the end of every mentoring session such as asking them to figure out what they plan on becoming in the next three years. Another difference between mentoring and coaching is the fact that a mentor can be a role model, a teacher, and a senior guide from whom the mentee receives career and psychological support, and expands his or her knowledge, experience, and performance. The mentor also helps the mentee identify what he or she is good at, because that way, they will be more likely to succeed. In opposition to that, the relationship between the coach and the coachee is an equals’ partnership whereby the coach helps in the development of the coachee, improving his or her learning, and enhancing his or her performance (McGuire, 2014,

Those two phases are focus on peer-to-peer mentoring and faculty to student mentoring. The goal of the KSU mentoring to program is to help eighteen – twenty-one-year-old students to advance holistically, achieve academically, and rise above adversity as they aspire towards excellence. In a cyclical system, students would be exposed to competent, caring, supportive and prosocial mentors. In return after a one semester of faculty and staff mentoring through ongoing one on one and group sessions that focus on wrap around support services and tutoring support that will yield academic success. The Plug mentoring program defines there mentoring program through five core pillars: leadership, accountability, engagement, growth mindset, and scholarship.

My passion for nursing practice defies description; leading to the reason I am opting to pursue a higher level of education in nursing. The George Washington University School of nursing has one of the highly ranked master’s programs in the country, which offers a competitive curriculum and highly defined leadership skills that integrates technology into learning. It is therefore my desire to pursue an advance education at this facility because it prepares practitioners to become great clinicians ready to solve real-world clinical problems. Moreover, the opportunity to pursue a degree in this facility will afford me the ability to be a competent and highly efficient family nurse practitioner; that will serve the community and mostly the underserved. I am the last child in a family of eight that has aspired to pursue my education at the graduate level.

My Intent to Be a Nurse Practitioner Coming from a third world country where there aren’t many opportunities for work and funding for education, proceding to nursing school was a grand opportunity. The privilege to attend a government subsidized school where top students in the region compete to get into the program that allowed only 60 students per year was indeed a blessing. As clinical rotations began, what was once considered a mere opportunity evolved into a true passion for caring as I truly love and enjoy nursing and helping people.

Akers mentions how important it is to implement mentoring programs for people, especially the young ones (Akers, 1998). He believes that having a mentor can really help someone especially like programs like Big Brother Big Sisters (Akers, 1998; Big Brothers Big Sister of America). Throughout the United States a mentorship program named Big Brothers Big Sisters of America have shown Akers idea and policy implication to be a successful well-thought idea (Akers, 1998; Big Brothers Big Sister of America). Big Brother Big Sisters of America is a highly recognized mentorship program for young people, that show statistics which measures social acceptance, academic achievement, risk avoidance, and other subject surveys. (Akers, 1998; Big Brothers Big Sister of America).

Messacar and Oreopoulous (2013) also suggested that mentoring programs for low-income or at-risk students might help to provide positive role models for students, such as administrators or educators. If students know that there is someone who has high expectations for them, they are more likely to be engaged and have lower rates of absenteeism and tardiness as well as increased rates of graduation. If James City public schools were able to create and follow through with some form of mentoring program for those students in need, perhaps they, too, would see their graduation rates

Nursing is a most trusted and gratifying profession. As a nurse educator, I will express my passion for teaching by incorporating features such as clinical assessments, practical application of theory, evaluation, and role modeling into advanced nursing practice, from previous experiences and current experience and clinical practicum to find success and gratification in students chosen profession as well empowering leaners to develop their own strengths, beliefs, and personal attributes to become a good professional. Personally, I do have a positive attitude towards the personal and professional growth, and value ongoing learning and will stive to instill the same into my students learnig journey .. My objective as a Nurse Educator

The mentors purpose is to be a support system for the students outside of the administration. First generation students are new to what 's going on around and campus, and are known to being a part of Student Support Services is like being at home with family

Mentoring has been implanted in society from the very beginning of time. The concept of mentoring is a relationship between two individuals in a different status of life. Typically, the mentor is older and filled with wisdom and guidance to share regarding the challenges of life or assistance to develop career related skills. For example, an older sibling teaching the younger sibling how to drive or study habits for difficult academic subjects. However, the guidance or assistance received relies on the formation of the mentorship.

My first comprehensive exposure to the health care field was six years ago as a senior, during which time I participated in hospital-based schooling. This program allowed me to observe a multitude of different medical disciplines, with rotations in surgery, orthopedics, nutrition, dermatology, gastroenterology, neurology, administrative services, and many more. Three out of the five school days were dedicated solely to shadowing, and the other two were spent in the classroom learning various medical-centric studies. Once in college, I continued to shadow physicians whenever my class scheduled permitted. I participated in the 4-U Mentorship program, which paired me with a fourth-year medical student who was preparing to do his residency in general

A mentor in nursing is defined as someone who can facilitate learning, supervise and asses nursing students in a practice setting. This in turn produces efficient and effective students who become competent and will have mastered the craft and art of caring. Mentorship is significant to students as it helps students develop their professional identities, attributes and competence and also enables students to learn through the creation of the supportive working and learning environment as an individual (Clutterbuck 2004). Decisions taken by mentors in assessing students have significant impacts on securing the nursing workforce in the future. This is because they help safeguard the ongoing excellence in the delivery of personalized patient care while making a major contribution to the development of the nursing profession.

A preceptor refers to a more formal arrangement that pairs a novice with an experienced for a set time period, with a focus on policies, procedures, and skill development (Zerwekh & Garneau, 2015). The status of colleague within health care generates pictures of nurse, doctors, and pharmacists discussing on equal basis problems and concerns related to health care (Zerwekh & Garneau, 2015). In healthcare it is very important for colleagues to work as a team to form a health plan for the patient, and later on a discharge plan for when they go home. Mentoring not only serves in nursing, but in careers such as business and education.

One way to promote academic honesty is creating a network of resource and support for student nurses. A mentotship program where a senior student nurse can guide freshmen student nurse is one. A relationship base on mutual goals and comradity can decreases the chances of academic dishonesty. In a mentotship program students are not in competition or maintain a facade of perfection. They are able to be vulnerable with someone that can help them avoids pitfalls such as plagiarism.

Friend: accept the mentee/coachee for who he/she is and engage in a relationship that is more personal by supporting him/her either in his/her professional or personal development Stakeholders involved: Supervisors: keep track of all what the mentors/coaches are doing. Mentees/coachees: show commitment to their mentors/coachers, be good listeners, learn from their mentors/coaches experiences Top management: design the mentoring program Steps to Implement mentoring/coaching: Step1: Conduct a need