Mentoring

AVSC defines facilitative supervision as an approach to supervision that emphasizes mentoring, joint problem solving, and two-way communication between the supervisor and those being supervised. This definition recognizes that supervisors play an essential role as intermediaries who can facilitate the implementation of institutional goals and who can facilitate local-level problem solving and quality improvement. The aim is to focus attention on a key concept of supervision, joint problem solving, and to remind us that traditional inspection alone is not conducive to helping sites achieve continuous quality improvement.

This Royal College of Nursing (RCN) publication is designed to assist you in your role as a mentor to pre-registration nursing and midwifery students. It outlines your responsibilities alongside those of the student, higher education institutions (HEIs) and placement providers. [introduction]

This presentation was part of a International Conference on Global Health session, “Innovations in Human Resources: Strategies to Address the Health-Care Workers Shortage.” It presents the ICEHA program to provide clinical mentors to improve skills of HIV-related health workers in developing countries.

This handbook is intended to help bridge the gap between the theoretical constructs behind mentoring (and associated cultural change in health-care settings) and real practitioner experience. Although mentoring has taken hold in a variety of professional settings, we focus specifically upon mentoring for service-delivery change within clinical health-care settings. Our audience is likely to be a practitioner who sees the need for a new process, protocol or procedure. In addition, we anticipate that health-care administrators and public health officials will be interested in the health-care implications for a mentoring approach to miscarriage management.