My specialty is mental health.
Mentorship Paper-Advancing the Profession
Purpose/Overview
Mentorship is an essential skill to help
advance the nursing profession one nurse at a time. There are different types
of mentoring based on the mentee’s goals, but the overall outcome is to help
another develop professionally through feedback, motivation, coaching, and
accountability. This paper helps the student reflect on the role they play in
mentoring and evaluating others.
Criteria
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Mentor others in the
development of their professional growth and accountability.
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Evaluate
strategies/methods for peer review.
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Participate in the
evaluation of other members of the care team.
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Demonstrate leadership
skills in times of uncertainty and crisis.
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Incorporate scholarly
sources
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Scholarly Writing
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Applies APA 7th ed.
format of writing and references are accurate
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Language, citations,
punctuation, grammar, and spelling are appropriate
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Writing is clear,
organized and concise
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Demonstrate
depth and breadth of analysis.
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Evaluate effectiveness
in meeting the assessment criteria via self-assessment.
Aligned
Course Outcomes
● Course Outcome: 5
Directions
Respond
to the below question prompts in each of the categories of Mentoring of Others
and Evaluation of Others.
Mentoring
of Others
1.
Introduce the concept
of mentoring as it relates to the nursing profession and student’s specialty
and explain the importance of mentoring of others to advance the profession.
2.
Provide examples of
how the student was the mentee and what they learned from their mentor.
3.
Provide examples of
how the student was the mentor and what they learned from the mentee.
4.
Synthesize best
practices, including use of information technology, in determining how the
student would provide mentorship to others during times of uncertainty and
crisis.
5. Create a smart goal for ongoing mentoring of
others in the student’s specialty looking to professional develop.
Evaluation
of Others
1.
Explain the peer
review process in the student’s place of employment, if applicable. If not
applicable, discuss the (theoretical) impact of not having a peer review
process.
2.
Evaluate best
practices for strategies and methods of peer review.
3.
Synthesize best
practices in the evaluation of others in professional practice.
4. Create a peer review tool, incorporating
information technology, to be used in the student’s practice specialty and
discuss why the specific aspects of the peer review tool were chosen.
Complete the self-assessment (see attached)
