Peer mentoring supports the learning needs of nurses providing palliative care in a rural acute care setting

Rabbetts, Lyn

doi:10.12968/ijpn.2017.23.6.280

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“…It was also recommended that hospitals consider a buddy system for new staff members, which aligns with past research showing that mentoring is received positively in rural settings (McMaster et al, 2021; Mills et al, 2006; Rabbetts, 2017). In a similar vein, greater support from clinical facilitators could be achieved through more regular contact with senior mentors and having multiple mentors per staff member, which could be implemented at a local ward level.…”

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Addressing the challenges of early career rural nursing to improve job satisfaction and retention: Strategies new nurses think would help

Rose

Skaczkowski

Gunn

2023

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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AimsTo (a) explore the experiences of early career registered nurses in rural hospitals in Australia and (b) identify strategies they believe would help increase job satisfaction and retention.DesignQualitative descriptive design.MethodsThirteen registered nurses located in outer regional, remote or very remote (herein ‘rural’) Australian hospitals participated in semi‐structured interviews. Participants had graduated from a Bachelor of Nursing program in 2018–2020. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis and an essentialist, bottom‐up approach.ResultsSeven themes related to the experiences of rural early career nursing: (1) appreciate diverse scope of practice; (2) rewarding sense of community and opportunity to give back; (3) staff support determines the quality of experience; (4) feeling underprepared and the need for ongoing education; (5) diverse views on the optimal length of rotation and level of input into choice of clinical area; (6) difficulty maintaining work/life balance due to work hours and rostering; and (7) lack of staff and resources. Strategies to improve nurses' experiences included: (1) assistance with accommodation and transport; (2) social gatherings to enhance connection; (3) sufficient orientation and supernumerary time; (4) increased frequency of contact with clinical facilitators and multiple mentors; (5) prioritizing clinical education across diverse topics; (6) greater involvement in choice of rotations and clinical areas; and (7) desire for more flexible work hours and rostering.ConclusionsThis study highlighted the experiences of rural nurses and explored their suggestions for how to overcome challenges in their roles. Greater consideration of early career registered nurses' needs and preferences is vital to improving and maintaining a satisfied, dedicated and sustainable rural nursing workforce.ImpactMany of the strategies for improving job retention identified by nurses in this study could be actioned at a local level, with little financial or time investment.Patient or Public ContributionNo Patient or Public Contribution.

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Addressing the challenges of early career rural nursing to improve job satisfaction and retention: Strategies new nurses think would help

Rose

Skaczkowski

Gunn

2023

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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“…Our study has demonstrated that the age of both mentor and protégé affects perceptions of mentoring. Peer-to-peer mentoring helps both mentors and protégés to learn communication, documentation and leadership skills [41, 42]. PhD students in particular, can benefit from peer mentoring as their colleagues can assist them and socialise them into their role as future scholars [43].…”

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High enthusiasm about long lasting mentoring relationships and older mentors

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Background Mentoring plays a pivotal role in workplace-based learning, especially in the medical realm. Organising a formal mentoring programme can be labor and time intensive and generally impractical in resource constrained medical schools with limited numbers of mentors. Hence, informal mentoring offers a valuable alternative, but will be more likely to be effective when mentors and protégés share similar views. It is therefore important to gain more insight into factors influencing perceptions of informal mentoring. This study aims to explore mentors and protégés’ perceptions of informal mentoring and how these vary (or not) with gender, age and the duration of the relationship. Method We administered an Informal Mentor Role Instrument (IMRI) to medical practitioners and academics from Egypt, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. The questionnaire was developed for the study from other validated instruments. It contained 39 items grouped into 7 domains: acceptance, counselling, friendship, parenting, psychological support, role modelling and sociability. Results A total of 103 mentors and 91 protégés completed the IMRI. Mentors had a better appreciation for the interpersonal aspects of informal mentoring than protégés, especially regarding acceptance, counselling and friendship. Moreover, being older and engaged in a longer mentoring relationship contributed to more positive perceptions of interpersonal aspects of mentoring, regardless of one’s role (mentor or protégé). Conclusion It can be concluded that the expectations of mentors and protégés differed regarding the content and aim of the interpersonal characteristics of their mentoring relationship. We recommend mentors and protégés to more explicitly exchange their expectations of the informal mentoring relationship, as typically practiced in formal mentoring. Additionally, in our study, seniority and lasting relationships seem crucial for good informal mentoring. It appears beneficial to foster lasting informal mentoring relationships and to give more guidance to younger mentors.

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“…Mentoring is used in healthcare as part of professional development and support, is usually dyadic in structure, with one-to-one interactions between a professional and a more senior colleague (Rabbetts, 2017, Chatburn, 2004.…”

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Exploring nutritional therapy practitioner perspectives on working with people affected by cancer

Granger¹

2021

European Journal of Integrative Medicine

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Peer mentoring supports the learning needs of nurses providing palliative care in a rural acute care setting

Abstract: Findings suggest nurses benefit from having someone to assist in learning about new documentation. Nurses respond positively to mentorship and practical guidance when integrating a new assessment form into routine evidence-based practice.

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Addressing the challenges of early career rural nursing to improve job satisfaction and retention: Strategies new nurses think would help

Addressing the challenges of early career rural nursing to improve job satisfaction and retention: Strategies new nurses think would help

High enthusiasm about long lasting mentoring relationships and older mentors

Exploring nutritional therapy practitioner perspectives on working with people affected by cancer

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