MENTORSHIP

Developing Mentorship knowledge and Skills



Developing Mentorship knowledge and Skills

Introduction

The concept of “Mentoring” has developed into a very popular theme in the past few years. Mentoring denotes an interpersonal relationship providing support, sharing and learning, in which an experienced person, the mentor invests its accumulated wisdom and expertise to promote the development of another person, the mentee, who acquire skills and career goals to be achieved. The assistance provided by the mentor is usually paid and is provided as part of a professional relationship that meets the needs of the mentee in terms of objectives related to his personal or professional development.

Mentoring is about one person helping another to achieve something. Specifically, something that is important to them. It is about giving help and support in a non-threatening in a way that the recipient to appreciate and value and empower them to move forward with confidence to achieve what they want.

Nursing is a profession which has developed by leaps and bounds in the earlier centuries; students have enrolled to courses based on professional and personal expectations of their careers. There are a lot of reasons, for a student to pursue nursing as a profession; a student can become a nurse in short period of time. There are nursing courses, through which a student can start, is or her carrier as a nurse in a year's time, in certain programs like Licence Practice Nurse (with appropriate prerequisites). You must be aged at least 17 ½ years in order to begin training. The minimum level in order to begin studies of nurses in Great Britain is defined by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). It takes at least two A-level (= degree in one subject at the end of high school in Great Britain) in which the following subjects must necessarily have been studied: English language and literature or science or mathematics. The minimum grade required is C grade i.e. 10/20. There is no official list of equivalence of degrees between England and France, is the establishment in which the application is sent to decide. However, we can say that the minimum level required for a French student's tray.

Moreover, it is essential to speak, understand and write English, indeed the institutions require evidence of the level of candidates (the ideal is to have passed specialized examinations, e.g. certificate advance of English, proficiency, IELTS) (NMC, 2008). The reason I choose my profession as a nursing mentor is because of the following three aspects of nursing (Nursing and Midwifery council, pp.12-79, and 2008):

The scope is very bright for nurses, the skills of a nurse focusas on professional growth and personal responsibilities which includes, inter professional, inter professional and intersectoral responsibilities related to their practice. Each nurse has the responsibility to provide safe, compassionate, competent and ethical care to individuals.

A sense of achievement is generated which is moral as well as professional. A nurse professionally preserves a client's dignity while assisting him physically and psychologically.

There are a multiple roles of a nurse such ...