My non-routine Tasks as a Mentor and Member of the Medication Safety Committee

My non-routine Tasks as a Mentor and Member of the Medication Safety Committee

As a mentor, my non-routine tasks entail assessing and supervising graduate nurses and facilitate their learning. These tasks include:

• Ensuring that graduate nurses practice based on the hospital’s guidelines and policies
• Identify and enable graduate nurses access to learning opportunities in the clinical setting
• Providing mentees with encouragement
•  Assess graduate nurses’ existing skills and knowledge and teaching new ones
• Acknowledging graduate nurses achievements
•  Prioritizing graduate nurses skills and knowledge development
•  Collaborating with graduate nurses supervisors to discuss milestone achieved in various practice areas

As a member of the Medication Safety Committee, my non-routine tasks entails

• Designing a medication safety program and enhancing its effectiveness
• Setting my unit’s direction and vision to reduce medication error incidents
•  Identifying opportunities  to enhance my unit’s medication-use system
•  Collaborating with staff to implement error-prevention approaches
•  Assuming the role of a medication safety expertise in my unit
• Influencing education, research, and practice change to enhance  medication safety
• Training staff about medication use 

My Strengths as a Mentor and Member of the Medication Safety Committee Member

My strength as a mentor is excellent leadership skills and problem-solving skills. I communicate effectively with my mentees and listen to their problems. I also enable and empower my mentees to complete their assigned responsibilities. I do not force mentees to act in accordance to my wishes. On the contrary, I help them connect with their potentials and fulfill both individual and organizational goals.  As a problem solver, I seek permanent solutions to conflicts or problems that might arise between mentees. Accordingly, as a leader, I often balance my scheduled meeting with my protégés and clinical responsibilities. The strength ensures that I meet my patients’ needs while enhancing graduate nurses’ smooth transition into the nursing profession. Additionally, I have vast experience as a senior nurse. Thus, my advanced professional development enhances my knowledge on various issues about the nursing profession. For instance, I can address issues in the nursing practice environment that mentees will encounter and strategies to overcome them. Also,  I provide graduate nurses with strategies to navigate the complex healthcare system and diverse patients’ needs. Additionally, I can give mentees personal advice based on my experiences in the profession. 

Another strength of mine is goal-oriented, teamwork, and persistent. Despite my busy schedule, I always follow up with my mentees to address any challenges they encounter in the profession. Similarly, I involve my mentees in designing their mentoring plan to ensure that I meet their individual needs. I also have excellent communication skills that enhance my ability to form strong relationships with my mentees. I also focus on providing constructive feedback to ensure mentees work on their weak areas using their strengths.

As a medication safety committee member, my strengths include creating medication safety as organization and individuals’ core values. I am also a champion of medication safety and engage all employees in addressing medication safety issues in my unit.  I also share medication safety tips with staff to ensure they direct their efforts to enhance patient safety and reducing adverse events in the healthcare facility. I also leverage scientific strategies to sustain safety improvements in the organization. My strength is learning from the medication mistakes of other organizations to ensure my organization does not repeat the same errors. I collaborate with healthcare workers to implement systems that safeguard clients from preventable medication errors. Therefore, my best strengths include effective time management skills and communication skills that boost my effective collaboration with staff to improve care delivery and enhance patient safety. Effective time management ensure that I meet my clinical responsibilities while ensuring that I attend to mentees and the medication safety committee needs.