My junior year in high school, I became a student mentor in our campus’s peer counseling program. This was an incredibly rewarding experience as I had the opportunity to help freshman students assimilate into our high school dynamic. As a peer mentor, I assisted students with personal problems and mediated issues with teachers in order to maximize their learning experience. I also acted as a role model for my mentees by talking frequently about AP and Honors courses and how to be successful in such programs. I put effort into learning about each individual's interests and goals so that I could expose them to clubs and academic courses that they may appreciate such as the Biomedical Academy or our school’s robotics team.…
Trust is an important value in nursing. It is what helps build a connection between the patient and the nurse (Rutherford). In the hierarchy of needs, trust is part of safety and security. When you build trust, it creates this value of safety for the patient. Trust can help relieve fear and anxiety as well as provide emotional safety (Taylor, 2014).…
Mentor, is a kind of authority. Very rarely is an authority in every respect. There is also a difference between the professional mentor and moral mentor. It would be wonderful if these aspects went hand in hand, but this is rare.…
Who is a Mentor and what is mentorship? It was always a inquisitiveness since I started to work in hospital. When I used to see our sign off mentor with the student nurse, I had a perception of a teacher and a student only. Since I started the Mentorship module my concept of mentoring was wrong. I about the mentorship and a value of being a mentor.…
I was very excited but also nervous about meeting my school mentor. I felt better once my SU mentor gave me background information on Mrs. Trotz, my school mentor. Mrs. Trotz recently got married and graduated from Stevenson University. I thought it was cool that she graduated from the school that I am currently attending. I couldn’t wait for Tuesday morning to finally meet Mrs. Trotz face to face at Carroltown Elementary School.…
1) Describe the peer mentor role in your own words. The role of a peer mentor is to help students with their transition from high school to college. You want them to enjoy the college atmosphere. In my case, I was considering to transfer right in the beginning because I just did not like the whole atmosphere.…
For my educational strategies I have chosen case II. Based on the needs assessment, we know that conversations will be difficult therefore the learners will need practice in delivering hard news for the patients and/or loved ones. The three learning objectives I would have are: 1. View and understand the difference between good and bad ways to deliver difficult news. 2.…
The one aspect I found interesting of the reading was when it talked about “mentoring on the run”. What I found interesting about mentoring on the run was the fact that mentoring does not necessarily mean occurring in a formal, one-to-one matching program. Rather, mentoring can happen on an everyday basis by surrounding students with a “community of mentors” all of whom are linked in an informal network or web…
Assignment 1: Does peer mentoring improve college freshmen retention rate? Samantha Dean A common question posed by administrators at institutions of higher education is how to retain college freshmen. The reasons that first-year students do not return to college as a sophomore range from family issues to lack of friends and loneliness to struggling academically and lack of money. Universities cannot control all factors relating to a student’s decision to not come back as a sophomore; however, they can experiment with ways to assist students who feel lonely or struggle with academics.…
There I was, a young boy, waiting with my family in the hospital and the Surgical Assistant was taking care of my younger brother’s infected pre-auricular sinus. Ignorantly, I asked why he didn’t cut it open to relieve the pain quickly. The assistant replied, “That is the job of the surgeon.” I was fortunate enough to be allowed on to the surgical observation deck and was enthralled by what I saw.…
I believe that learning is a social activity as Bandura states in his Theory of Social Learning. I commit to create a caring atmosphere in the clinical setting for my students to facilitate the mutual respect, trust and reciprocal learning. I understand true learning can only take place when the student has the personal desire to learn and not from a personal desire to please the educator. In this reciprocal environment, I serve as a learning facilitator, guiding students towards understanding through discussion, activities and shared experiences.…
Monday, October 5th: For the last clinical day at Hampton Homes, I was in the role of doing home visits. We made two homes visits today. Both home visits were to clients I had never visited before. One client talked a very long time about her community and environment. I asked her questions as we talked, and she revealed a lot about the area she lives in.…
A peer mentor is defined as a person who uses their resources to support, encourage and inform someone. Going into this semester, I was unaware that I would be mentoring another student and thus doubted my abilities. Although I was excited to become a mentor, I questioned whether I would truly be able to make a difference in someone’s life. The difference that I wanted to make could be as simple as helping someone ace a test, but the news of mentoring threw me off track. Nonetheless, I gathered myself and tried to maintain a positive attitude.…
Reflection About Classroom Teaching Experience Being an educator is a challenge and a new learning experience each time. As an educator, I am entrusted with the responsibility of shaping the way students think and feel in the classroom. I have always wanted to be an educator and share my experiences with the new generation of nurses. When I was assigned to work with professor Lynette Rayman to do my classroom teaching experience, I was thrilled because the topic I chose was chronic kidney disease which also happens to be my area of expertise. I had to incorporate my previous learning experiences to make my presentation lively.…
As a future nurse educator I look forward to teaching college students. I picture myself teaching students the basics of nursing. I hope that I have a good mentor as I enter this field. I noticed this theme in my reading and feel that this would be a plus to my learning how to approach the students. I also feel that I am wise enough to realize that I am one who knows that she does not know it all, I am willing to help a student know where to find it.…