Mentoring

overview

The transition from the classroom to real-world health care settings, combined with personal, emotional, intellectual, and relationship changes on the job, can overwhelm any new nurse. In fact, these pressures often contribute to high turnover rates in the nursing field. How can health care organizations help new nurses overcome these challenges and others inherent in their new roles? One approach is establishing a nurse mentorship programme.

key facts

Who is it for?

This module aims to prepare registered health professionals who are supporting, supervising and assessing pre-registration health care students in practice environments.

Location

Ebene Campus

Entry Requirements

  1. Registered nurse or
  2. Any other qualification acceptable at the discretion of Polytechnics Mauritius Ltd.
 

If you have not completed any recognised diploma or degree before, then you qualify for free tuition fees by the government.

Objective/ career prospect

The objectives of this short course are to enable the students to:

1. Provide students with theoretical and practical skills to support appropriate decision making (evidence-based nursing and practice, problem-based learning and practical-based learning).

2. Provide clear guidance to nursing practice regarding professional boundaries (the formal authorisation of a specific group of professionals to perform specific tasks, defined by policy and guidelines).

Course Content

  • Role of the practitioner as mentor.
  • The professional, academic and political context of practice education
  • Interpersonal & communication skills
  • The practice setting as a learning environment.
  • The theoretical and evidence base underpinning supervision, learning and assessment in practice.• Issues of leadership for mentors; prioritising, planning and acting as advocate for students.
  • Inter professional learning and working; implications for practice-based learning.
  • Contemporary critical perspectives on the theoretical underpinning.