Effective Mentoring and Leadership for Nursing Skills and Healthcare Services

Mentoring and Leadership
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Mentoring and Leadership
Leadership entails the art of motivating people towards the attainment of set goals while directing an organization cohesively and coherently. Therefore, an effective leader ought to have a vision and build trust with colleagues. On the contrary, mentoring is a holistic approach in leadership to help people with less experience. The main concern of mentors is on the tasks that a mentee needs to attain the set goals. According to the article, A Comprehensive Literature Review of Guidelines Facilitating Transition of Newly Graduated Nurses to Professional Nurses, van Rooyen and co-authors argue that a mentor plays a critical role in guiding students in their professional growth and clinical learning process. van Rooyen provides comprehensive information on the relationship between leadership and mentoring.
Leadership and mentoring have a close connectedness towards the accomplishment of set goals. Nurse leaders play a relevant role in facilitating a clear nursing perspective in global health policy and decision-making. Therefore, nurses should develop leadership skills to strengthen their contribution to healthcare and execute change to meet the needs of the people (van Rooyen et al., 2018). In contrast, mentoring is a transactional process that entails transmitting support, advice, and expertise from an experienced to a less-experienced individual. As such, the process can help to maintain a professional network and enhance self-esteem and competence.
Leadership has a significant impact in the healthcare field in establishing an ideal environment for effective professional practice. Healthcare professionals, such as AMO and nurses, require a knowledgeable and effective leader to provide high-quality health services. For that reason, health professionals must integrate mentorship to accomplish the set objectives. According to van Rooyen et al. (2018), leadership style provides direction and motivates people to achieve optimal healthcare practices. Most hospitals have adopted democratic leadership and mentoring programs to exchange ideas through regular meetings and weekly clinical area visits. Leaders immerse followers in concerted leadership development through mentorship programs.
Research findings indicate that effective communication is fundamental in facilitating organizational success and an effective decision-making process. As a result, professionals develop productive relationships with patients. Therefore, a competent leader should possess practical communication skills and trust to encourage subordinates to follow them. Leaders can create beneficial changes for their followers (van Rooyen et al., 2018). Besides, mentors and mentees need to interact freely in the lifelong learning journey. Therefore, leadership development is strategically imperative for private and public healthcare organizations. Since transformational leaders have outstanding intellectual stimulation, they are likely to guide mentees towards accomplishing set objectives.
van Rooyen and co-authors reaffirm that mentorship is influential in facilitating the competence of nurse leaders. Mentorship relationships are empowering connections that ...