Question

Read the following journal report and then answer the questions below.
CNNT CASE STUDY: Importance of Mentoring in Nursing Education.
Linda Takvorian, BSN, RN, CNN.
https://www.kidney.org/content/cnnt-case-study-importance-mentoring

What is your understanding of mentoring? Why do nurses need mentors?
Give a brief summary of each section of this Paper. DO NOT copy-and-paste the paper.

1. Mentoring in Nursing (1 points)
2. Benefits of Mentoring (1 points)
3. Mentoring Relationships (1.5 points)
4. Characteristics of a Healthy Mentor-Mentee Relationship (1.5 points)
5. Mentoring Cycle (1 points)
6. Reflection in Mentoring (1 points)
7. Barriers to Mentoring (1.5 points)
8. Give a brief contrast of a tutor vs mentor, vs friend, vs instructor. (1.5 points)

Answer 1

Mentoring is sharing knowledge ,life expierience,skills to guide another towards reaching their full potential.it can be formal or informal and may change and evolve the needs of the mentee change.

Nurse mentora are needed to provide guidance and share their clinical experiences to help new nursed gain confidence in the field of health care.

The benefits of mentoring are, being helped to identiify and achieve career goals,being encouraged and empowered in personal development,developing and maintaining a broader perspectivve on carrer optiions and opportunities,increase the confidence.

Mentoring relationship is the relationship between two people with the goal of professional and personal development.

In good mentor mentee relationship mentee celeberate their relationship, small and big victories that they created togetherly.

Effective mentors demonstrate confidence,commitment,competence by building onthe strenth of the mentee and allowing to develop according to his career goals.

The barriers of mentoring are organisational culture,lack of time and resources,resistance from senior management,lack of understanding of the values of mentoring,low level of skills and experience with the organization