MENTORSHIP PRACTICE

A reflective critical evaluation of four key professional requirements for mentorship practice

A reflective critical evaluation of four key professional requirements for mentorship practice

Introduction

In the bookish language, mentoring is defined as a process by which a person with having more experience helps the subordinates or students to achieve certain goals. Mentor cultivates their skills through a series of personal and confidential conversations and designs other learning activities. Similarly, mentors also benefit from the mentoring relationship because it also give them the chance of freshen up their skills as well. As a mentor, one will have the chance of sharing his knowledge and practices, which could help in developing a new relationship with the students (Morton, 2003, pp. 199-202).

There are many kinds of mentoring relationships, ranging from informal to formal. An informal mentoring relationship usually takes place within one unplanned format. (Think about the times when a person with more experience provides support without being explicitly requested). Similarly, informal mentoring may also occur in the context of other relationships, such as a supervisory relationship or even subordinates relationship. A ratio of formal mentoring is characterized by the nature of intentionality - the partners in the relationship ask or offer mentoring, set targets for the relationship and establishes agreements on nature (Wallace & Gravells, 2007, pp. 54-56). There are also mentoring programs that facilitate formal mentoring relationships. A mentoring relationship "facilitated" defined as " a structure and a series of processes designed to create effective mentoring relationships, guide the desired behaviour change for involved and evaluate the results for the protected-i.e., people receiving mentoring-the mentors and the organization. " These mentoring relationships occur within a defined and structured and involve a third party. With Often, these programs have a specific goal, such as helping participants to their careers (Bray & Nettleton, 2007, pp. 848-55).

Discussion

The purpose of writing this paper is to give readers an idea about the mentoring role in the medical field. The focus of the paper is basically how to mentor who are suffering from dementia, and how to help these people in progressing in their respective careers. Only a good mentor can help the people who are suffering from the disease of dementia. These people can actually be brought back to life if the mentor is having relevant skills to communicate with them effectively and also has convincing skills to make them feel better.

Similarly, the second task of the mentor is basically to evaluate the clinical learning environment and for this purpose, the author presented the SWOT analysis of the learning environment. However, beside the SWOT analysis, the author further analyzed the learning environment by proposing different developments and implementations in learning environment, which will eventually help in promoting the learning environment

However, the third activity based on the critical analysis of the activity that actually performed by the student Mark, in this activity, the author analyzed the skills and abilities of Mark that how calmly and efficiently he performed the job. Whereas, the author also highlighted an interesting point regarding the failing students that, what actually steps management need to improve the student skills and ...