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The Mentoring Process: A Learning Focused Approach

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1.  Mentoring relationships are important to the professions because:
  1. They are an essential process in program management
  2. They ensure the development of critical thinking and problem solving skills
  3. They are central to the success of developing and retaining effective clinicians
  4. They will increase productivity among professionals
2.  Assumptions and beliefs about mentoring include which of the following:
  1. Mentoring is an investment in retention, integration and continual growth of both the mentor and the mentee
  2. Mentoring is a part of the supervisory process
  3. Mentoring ensures growth and learning by the mentee
  4. Mentoring is focused on teaching and evaluating
3.  Clinical fellows benefitting from skilled mentoring are more likely to:
  1. demonstrate and engage in critical thinking and problem solving activities
  2. engage in collaborative professional exchanges regarding improved service delivery practices
  3. remain in the profession
  4. all of the above
4.  A central component of a learning focused approach to mentoring is:
  1. offering support to the mentee
  2. providing a clear understanding of the respective roles, responsibilities and expectations of each participant
  3. challenging the mentee
  4. facilitating a vision
5.  Facilitating a professional vision:
  1. creates a lifelong learner engaged in continuous improvement
  2. creates a safe space for the mentee to grow
  3. actively engages the mentee in problem solving
  4. helps the mentee to build connections between research data and current practice
6.  Learning focused mentors offer support by:
  1. Attending fully
  2. Responding empathetically
  3. Offering resources
  4. all of the above
7.  Creating challenge is important in a learning focused relationship in order to:
  1. enhance the professional competence of the mentor
  2. facilitate the mentee's induction into the profession
  3. nurture independence, and create effective clinicians
  4. none of the above
8.  Effective interpersonal communication is an important aspect of both the mentoring and supervisory processes because:
  1. growth and development in the mentee/supervisee is dependent upon the mentor's/supervisor's ability to communicate effectively.
  2. the mentor/supervisor must be able to get along with the mentee/supervisee
  3. the literature on supervision and mentoring discusses the importance of interpersonal communication
  4. both a and c
9.  In order to create independence and invite thinking, we must learn to:
  1. use appropriate paraphrasing and questioning skills
  2. give advice tactfully
  3. think carefully before we speak
  4. establish rapport with colleagues and mentees
10.  For clinical fellows, the benefits of mentoring include:
  1. increased efficacy as problems solvers and decision makers
  2. increased opportunities for collaborative exchanges
  3. increased likelihood of remaining in the profession
  4. all of the above