Mentoring In Nursing

Perhaps you are a new nurse graduate excited to get into the work field and care for patients. You may be an experienced nurse who was just offered a promotion to a new nursing role. You can even be nursing student trying to get through all the exams and new skills you are learning. Or you can even be a new graduate nurse who is a new working nurse who may a conflict with another nurse. Whatever your situation may be, all of these need to learn the ropes about the position they are facing. This is where mentoring and coaching nurses play a major role.

Nurses who “eat their young” has become a common phrase in the nursing field. This my come to a surprise to many people considering how caring and companionate nurses are to be. Imagine, you

Mentors can continue to play a major role in the mentees’ progression during the beginning of their professional nursing career. Nursing faculty recognize the need to provide an educational experience and positive learning environment for all students, resulting in educators continually introducing multiple teaching, learning, and assessment techniques to support students' learning successes (Billings & Halstead, 2012). Hence, having a mentor can make a new graduate nurse’s professional life exponentially better than having to go it alone. In todays world nurses are needed due to the shortage which means mentoring and coaching a one way we can change

The mentors also will be allowed to give feedback to mentees based on situations they face in the work place. For example, if a new nurse graduate feels she is being bullied by a senior nurse, she can speak with a mentor about this to help her find a way to go about the situation. The mentor is giving her feedback based on the mentees situation and the mentee is responsible to take the advice or leave it. The mentee is then responsible and has knowledge of what should be done in the work place with this type of situation. The mentor essentially gives the mentee an approval to what actions should be taken and coaches the new nurse. Since mentoring and coaching will help new nurse graduates stay within the health care system they work for, it should be reported as to why the mentee is leaving a facility. The nursing profession overall needs to find out why nurses are leaving their facility within the first year of working there and asking nurses for feedback can help facilities correct or improve the nursing environment. Nurse leaders should also gather great examples that new nurse graduates can turn to as a mentor. This allows for peer nurses to trust one another and create an environment of team