Is Mentoring a Stepping Stone to Personal and Professional growth of a Student? Introduction: Mentoring is a professional activity, a trusted relationship, a meaningful commitment. The origins of mentoring can be traced back to ancient Greece as a technique to impart to young men important social, spiritual and personal values. Mentoring is a joint venture. Successful mentoring requires both parties share responsibility for learning and sustaining the relationship. Effective mentors promote an
The purpose of this paper is to explain the importance of nurses mentoring other nurses. It is a form of professionalism in nursing. Nurses mentor others for growth, sustainability of the profession, to acknowledge and respect cultures in all its ramifications. Other reasons why nurses are mentored includes, to improve the quality of the profession, and to bridge the gap between the different generations of nurses. According to Foley et. al (2012), we can use generational lenses to help us see things
that I showed interest in working with them. Among the 3 alternatives, I finally decided to do my service learning with NewLeaf Ghana because though the other organization’s cause was also education, I believed that because NewLeaf Ghana was restructuring, I could do more and be more impactful. NewLeaf is a mentoring project designed to train Presbyterian Senior High School students, a school located in Aburi in the areas of self-awareness, leadership, effective communication
Being a practice-based profession, nursing needs mentors to support students in clinical setting, as working with practitioners will help learning in a safe, supported and educationally modified environment (Beckett, 1984). In practice setting, students learn skills, acquire knowledge and achieve competencies where the mentors lay support for them. The role of a mentor is crucial in developing future generations of nurses and midwives. The mentor facilitates the learning environment that students
To achieve this various learning modules are used. This includes tutorials, apprenticeships & close mentoring. The volume of study material is overwhelming and thus students spend a considerable amount of time, both during the day & at night to achieve expected academic mile stones. Therefore these programs may have unintended negative consequences on the
HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT HRD are those learning experience which are organized, for a specific time, and designed to bring about the possibility of behavioural change – according to Nadler in 1969 in a U.S. conference. Human Resource Development is a part of human resource management that specifically deals with training and development of the employees in the organization. Human resource development includes training a person after he or she is first hired, providing opportunities to learn new
To supervise the quality of education, most of the authorities greatly depend on the process of school supervision. Instructional supervision is one of the processes by which school administrators attempt to attain satisfactory standards of performance and results. It is the means of
leadership behaviors. Sustainability of these skills will be dependent on continued organizational mentoring and growth of the participants of the
resources function. The actual management of human resources is the responsibility of all the managers in an organisation even though the specific human resource functions are the responsibility of the human resource department. Therefore, it is of importance
Globalization has influenced many aspects of society and will continue to shape the future of education. The impact of globalization has led to excessively high enrollments for many universities and colleges. It has become increasingly clear that individuals need to continually learn new skills in order to keep their jobs and competitiveness in the knowledge and digital economy. People who cannot or will not learn new skills will have more difficulty finding a job and stay competitive. Leaders of