Precepting and Mentoring

Precepting provides a foundational framework and resources for employees who are responsible for orienting new employees as well as provide a mechanism to increase staff development competency.   Orientation is a shared responsibility between managers, unit educators, facilitators, orientees and clinical educators.

Mentoring is exciting, challenging and rewarding. It offers support, consistency and allows employees to develop the knowledge and skills needed to reach their full potential. It also offers the chance for employees to share their success and failures and to pass on the positive aspects of our corporate culture.

If your gift is to encourage others, be encouraging. If it is giving, give generously. If God has given you leadership ability, take the responsibility seriously…
Romans 12:8 (NLT)

Mentor’s Role and Responsibilities

The Mentor’s role is to listen, provide constructive feedback and help their Mentee consider options. They may refer them to resources, facilitate decision making, and share their own experiences. They might help to identify areas for development, coach
their Mentee and allow opportunities to practice new skills. They may be a sounding board, ask questions to cause further exploration of ideas or to challenge their Mentee’s
thinking. The Mentor should provide guidance, not direction and do not solve problems but act as a collaborator in the problem solving process.

Primary responsibilities of a Mentor include:

• Maintaining confidentiality
• Being accessible
• Listening actively to your Mentee
• Promoting responsible decision making
• Motivating and supporting your Mentee to develop and achieve their career goals
• Ensuring a professional relationship
• Acting as a role model

Mentee Responsibility

The Mentee’s overall responsibility in the mentoring process is to learn from the Mentor in a manner that tends to advance the Mentee’s career at Providence Hospitals and by making a positive contribution to the mission of the organization. In other words, it is the Mentee’s primary responsibility to receive in good spirit the advice and guidance offered by the Mentor. To learn and practice new skills that can be applied to the Mentee’s current career path and to reinforce successful skills that the Mentee has already learned.

Foster the Relationship. Keep the relationship on a professional basis. Listen attentively to all (or nearly all) that your Mentor has to say. Store what seems irrelevant for some future use. Seriously consider all advice you receive.

Professional Conduct

All Mentor/ Mentee interaction is to be conducted on a professional basis reflecting the highest ethical and behavioral standards. Neither the Mentor nor Mentee shall disclose any confidential proprietary information outside the Mentoring relationship.