EDUCATION

The Role Of The Mentor In Developing The Students

Confidence And Competence In practice



The Role Of The Mentor In Developing The Students Confidence And Competence In practice

Introduction

The basic purpose of this essay is to gravely converse over the role of the mentor in developing thestudent's confidence and competence in nursing practice and relate it also with reference from my reflective diary. According to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) (2008) mentor is is appropriately taken up to refer to the role of a registered nurse who knows how to aid students and make them learn the nursing practice tools. Moreover they recognize the eight essential standards that should surely be achieved to work as a mentor (Beskine, 2009).

Discussion

Facilitating of Learning How I DevelopThe Student Confidence & Competence

Being a registered nurse I mostly feel good and take pride in supporting enjoy supporting student nurses. They are confused and unsettled in this beginning stage of their career. They need guidance and support o help them take the right path and develop confidence in them to practice efficiently. There are very few skillful mentors on the ward, and as per my progress review with my line manager I thought of taking the mentorship qualification. The NMC (2004) states, that if you are a authorized nurse, you should always keep your information and talents up dated as per the latest trends all throughout your working career (Cassidy, 2009).

In my point of view as a mentor, you have the responsibility in orientating students to their placement areas and the essential role in ensuring a positive start to a placement. Hence within my area of work, working as a nurse, pervious students have reported having poor community experiences, students felt they were left unsupported and undervalued by mentors. Having an effective working relationship also helps to support learning, in that it helps towards gaining awareness of the student individuality and assessing the student effectiveness within a working team. Effective communication and information sharing are paramount to the success of team mentoring(Price, 2007). The Nursing and Midwifery Council's (2008a) Standards to Support Learning and Assessment in Practice have been reinforced, with a prospect that mentors continue to increase their skills and knowledge to enable credible decisions about the competence of students. Accordingly, there are numerous barriers that affect the effective assessment process, one being the insufficient time to work with students. Nurses often work in busy environments where frequently time is not allocated to spend assessing and supporting students. Students and mentors tend to complain of not having another time to undergo assessment effectively and insufficient time for mentoring activities is the most cited difficulty. Therefore more robust leadership on the part of the mentor is needed, in terms of forward planning and proactive actions. Other known barriers of effective assessment are lack of support for mentors, Personal failure, staff shortages, too many students in a single clinical placement and lack of support for mentors (Lowry,1997). As a mentor, you have the responsibility in orientating ...