I can now fully appreciate the challenges my preceptor had to go through as she prepares me for my role as a staff nurse 18 months ago. With a nursing student training under me, I experience the same joy, dilemma and frustration that my mentor faced then. To help her along so that we can go home on time together? Or let go partially and help her a little but be prepared to go home later than usual? Or let go totally and just provide guidance when necessary so she'll have an idea what it is like to be an independent nurse? It's a difficult decision which I have to make every day.
For now, I guess I'll continue with the first option until such time she's ready to break free from me. I hope I don't have to wait too long for that day to come. Anyway, I don't have 'forever' to guide her. 9 more weeks and her internship will come to an end. Dear God, please help me and teach me how to let go! I am still 'work in progress' as a preceptor and I am learning too. Grant me the wisdom to know the difference between guiding with supervision, and completing work on her behalf without learning taking place. *Yawn* And there's more to come tomorrow. Be there with me, dear Lord. It's all yours... Goodnight!
"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go." - Herman Hesse (1877-1962).
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