Mentoring Nurses as a Way of Empowerment and Staff Retention
Mentoring provides an opportunity for nurses to develop their careers and an opportunity to aim for leadership positions. Mentors train and guide new nurses to better understand the importance of their profession. This not only increases their motivation, but it also helps you retain these quality-trained nurses later.
Let UPS Healthcare help you define what this relationship could look like and how it could benefit your practice.
Mentoring is a relationship that has:
- Professional relationships and based on free will
- Communal respect and goals
- Benefits for the individual involved
Mentoring relationships need:
- Trust
- Respect
- Commitment
- Confidentiality
- Accessibility
- Flexibility
All of these are great qualities for nurses in your practice to have. So, by having the nurses being mentored, this allows the mentor to instill these virtues into them.
Mentors assist the nurses by helping them:
- Understand their role in general practice
- Manage the changing practice
- Manage new and old practice settings
- Manage personal practices
The benefits and advantages of mentoring nurses:
- Increased productivity and motivation
- Improved teamwork and communication skills
- Gain positive commitment
Mentors should be able to give guidance and assistance to nurses, but aren’t required to have all the answers. They are there to guide nurses in the search for learning experiences that are not taught in the four corners of a classroom.
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