1. The West Virginia Center for Nursing
PRESENTS:
Role of Mentor
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2. Define It
Mentoring comes from the Greek word meaning enduring. It is defined as a sustained relationship. A relationship in which one offers support, guidance, and assistance.
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3. What is a Nurse Residency Program Mentor?
Caring, responsible Registered Nurse who serves as a trusted guide to a new nurse graduate during a residency program.
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4. Recollection
Take a moment and recall your favorite nurse when you first started to work.
Who were they?
What did they do?
How did they help you?
What did you learn?
How old were you?
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5. A Mentor….
Helps to ensure that the novice nurse develops important skills;
Helps to expose the novice nurse to new opportunities for learning and skill development;
Helps the novice nurse make positive nursing career choices
and advance toward excellence in nursing.
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6. Planting a Seed for Growth
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7. Do You Have Mentor Qualities of Excellence?
A Good Listener?
Caring?
Confident?
Emotionally intelligent?
Love of the nursing profession?
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8. A Successful Mentor to a Nurse Resident will have:
Commitment to being available during the Residency.
Dedication to continuing the mentoring relationship after the Residency
Emotional maturity and intelligence
Patient understanding of the new graduate nurse’s level of knowledge
Respect for the Resident as a nurse and a person
Ability to be a positive role model
Ability to lead the novice nurse thoughout the Residency process.
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9. Guidance Ask the Resident Nurse: Where do you want to
go in your nursing career?
Help them find the answer
during the Residency experience.
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10. Challenge them to explore and ask questions.
Ask the Resident:
What do you think you are ready to take on?
Remember:
They may be inexperienced, but they are professional registered nurses and can make decisions.
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11. Bring on the Power! Empower them for the Future!
Work with the Nurse Resident carefully to explore their goals.
Examine barriers and ways to overcome them.
Push them towards excellence.
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12. Student Responsiveness
Remember the Nurse Resident must be responsive to the relationship.
Spend time getting to know them and letting them get to know you.
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13. Seek Common Ground What does the Nurse Resident like that you like?
Find things to talk about, aside from nursing that remove barriers.
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14. What NOT to do Don’t assume the Nurse Resident knows more than you.
Don’t provide personal counseling services that may conflict with family values and other life influences.
Don’t overstep personal and psychological boundaries.
Don’t buy things for them.
Don’t share addresses or offer a great deal of personal information about yourself.
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15. Pay attention! Don’t just listen Listen to Understand! Clarify
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16. Goals Ask about personal goals. Show them options.
Don’t tell them what to do.
Guide them to decide what it is they want.
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17. Take Inventory
How much do they already know about the nursing profession?
Are they misunderstanding important issues?
Do they have false beliefs about the nursing profession?
Are they influenced by others in their beliefs?
Fill in the gaps.
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18. Seek improvement Select areas that need further development
Interpersonal Communication
Mature attitude
Caring
Education
Responsibility for future
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19. Help them learn how to write meaningful passages.
Journaling
Nurse Residents will engage in the journaling process during the program.
Help them learn how to write meaningful passages.
Inspire them!
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20. After the Residency, Then what??
Have you built a Relationship?
Does the Nurse want to continue the mentor relationship?
( , phone calls)
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21. Give Your Time, but set limits
Be Accessible on your terms.
Let them know when you will be available.
, exchange phone numbers, etc.
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22. Guiding Light
As they go along, help the Nurse Resident reflect on where they started, where they’ve been and where they are going on their nursing pathway.
Be their guiding light.
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23. Reflection
It is admirable that you have agreed to mentor a new nurse just beginning their career.
If someone had done this for you, would your nursing career and your life have been different?
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24. Questions?
Comments?
Concerns?
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