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Friday, April 12, 2013
Learning Objective 1: The learner will be able to identify three characteristics needed to be an effective mentor.
Learning Objective 2: The learner will be able to identify two effective strategies that enable a novice educator to become an effective mentor.
Effective mentoring is important in every sector of nursing, whether in an acute care or academic setting. Establishing a positive mentor relationship is important in helping new faculty and staff to feel support and guidance as they venture into their new career paths. This relationship is also important for preventing burnout in new faculty and staff. When a novice educator is asked to become a mentor, he or she may not realize what the task entails or how they could be an effective mentor. Managers, supervisors, department chairs, or Deans can assist the novice educator to quickly grow into the mentor role. In order to foster a positive relationship, novice educators need to be able to establish their mentor skill set quickly and efficiently. Mentors need to be positive, supportive, knowledgeable, challenging, and engaging. Personal experiences, reinforced by research, have established important mentor characteristics and effective strategies that can be learned by many and utilized by novice educators.