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A 4 page paper answering 3 questions addressing nurse mentoring, self-directed learning and the value of the practicum journal that MSN students kept earlier in their course of study. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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NUR/590A and you may have found that you developed a mentorship relationship with one of your experts that you primarily worked with during your practicum. Based on that relationship and
your personal knowledge and experience with mentorship, how will you apply what you learned to mentoring others in the future? Be specific in terms of your plans.
Theory-based nursing practice is the focus of much current nursing research and practice. Established, experienced nurses may be less familiar with theory than are
new graduates. It is common practice for older nurses to mentor newer ones; new graduates fresh from study of theory also have the opportunity to teach as well (Hayes,
1998). Lewins change theory maintains that change is incremental and proceeds stepwise (Groups and group dynamics). The organization can assist this progression by hiring new graduates with solid
knowledge of theory, which they can pass on to those more experienced in practice. There is increased focus today on theory-based nursing, and
the organization supporting a mentoring program is better able to put theory into practice. The organization that views patients more as people than as cases is more "human," and
therefore more attractive to those very human individuals filling its nursing positions. A mentoring program can help support those theories that hold to the view of both patients and
nurses as being systems that interact for a common purpose. It would seem that those organizations most in tune with todays nursing focus also are those most likely to
institute change to achieve a more theory-based approach to staffing and patient care. Enhanced personal, trust-based relationships among nurses cannot be separated from
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