There are two types of mentoring: natural or informal mentoring and planned or formal mentoring. Natural mentoring occurs through friendship, collegiality, teaching, coaching, and counseling. In contrast, planned mentoring occurs through structured programs in which mentors or team leaders and participants are selected and matched through formal processes. This course will introduce the planned or formal mentoring. Without mentoring, nurses may not feel supported and, as a result, they may not become fully engaged in their units, consequently becoming disillusioned with their profession. Nurses who have been mentored have generally found their nursing experience to be positive and worthwhile, and ultimately go on to mentor others. This course covers the characteristics of a mentor and the differences between the role of mentor and the role of preceptor - help bridge the gap between didactic information and early clinical experience.

ACCREDITATION STATEMENT

AdventHealth University Division – echelon® is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

echelon® is an approved CE provider by the Florida Board of Nursing.

AdventHealth University Division echelon is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing. Provider Number CPE16352.

Upon successful completion of this course, the participant will be able to:

1. Define mentoring and its relevance.
2. Understand differences between precepting and mentoring.
3. Examine the role of the mentor and apply the principles to a mentoring program.
4. Identify how mentoring helps to bridge the gap between didactic information and early clinical experience.
5. Discuss how mentoring helps develop critical thinking skills.

Relevant Financial Relationships: echelon® also chooses full disclosure with each activity to report any relevant financial relationship affiliation or support in conjunction with the planning or development of any activity.

*There are no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies for those involved with the ability to control the content of this activity.

Completion Requirements: To receive continuing education credit commensurate with the credit awarded for this on-line activity, the participant must:

• View all modules and cases studies.
• Participate and pass all Self-Checks and Post Test(s).
• Complete and submit the on-line evaluation.

Certificates of Completion: will be available to print immediately upon finishing the completion requirements. You are encouraged to print and save your certificate for your portfolio as required by your licensing body. Interdisciplinary accredited activities, activities having multiple accreditors, will be listed individually on the Certificate of Completion.

Non-Endorsement of Products: echelon®, as an accredited provider, has demonstrated proficient experience and viable resources to provide for valid and reliable evaluation of CE activities. The accuracy of the facts and opinions contained in this activity are the responsibility of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of echelon® or its sponsors. Practitioners should consult primary resources, state regulations, and their healthcare facility policies and procedures for specific application of said content to their local situation. echelon® does not imply that there is real or implied endorsement of any product, service, or company neither referred to in this activity nor of any company subsidizing costs related to this activity. All information contained in this activity is for educational purposes only.

Electronic Record Retention: All activity records are kept on file for a minimum of six (6) years.