Research Article
Creating Effective Interprofessional Mentoring Relationships in Palliative Care- Lessons from Medicine, Nursing, Surgery and Social Work
Muhammad Taufeeq Wahab1, Muhammad Fadhli Bin Mohamad Ikbal1, Wu Jingting1*, Loo Teck Wee Wesley1, Ravindran Kanesvaran1,2,3 and Lalit Kumar Radha Krishna1,2,4,51Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore
2Practice Course 2, Duke NUS Postgraduate Medical School, Singapore
3Department of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Center, Singapore
4Department of Palliative Medicine, National Cancer Center, Singapore
5Center for Biomedical Ethics, National University, Singapore
- *Corresponding Author:
- Wu Jingting
Department of Medicine
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Singapore
Tel: +6597115775
E-mail: wujting@gmail.com
Received date: November 10, 2016; Accepted date: November 24, 2016; Published date: November 25, 2016
Citation: Wahab MT, Ikbal MFM, Jingting W, Wesley LTW, Kanesvaran R, et al. (2016) Creating Effective Interprofessional Mentoring Relationships in Palliative Care- Lessons from Medicine, Nursing, Surgery and Social Work. J Palliat Care Med 6:290. doi: 10.4172/2165-7386.1000290
Copyright: © 2016 Wahab MT, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
requires multidisciplinary teamwork to achieve its patient specific objectives. Success of this approach pivots on nurturing effective interprofessional relationships through the provision of holistic support and multidimensional training of multiprofessional Palliative Care team members. Mentoring is seen as an effective means of facilitating multiprofessional collaborations however little data exists on operationalizing an interprofessional mentoring program in Palliative Care. To address this gap and circumnavigate the context-specific nature of mentoring, we scrutinized mentoring approaches in medicine, surgery, nursing and medical social work to identify common elements of mentoring within their respective practices that will provide the basis of an interprofessional mentoring in Palliative Care. Thematic analysis of 20 reviews of undergraduate and postgraduate mentoring programs in medicine, surgery and suggest that successful mentoring programs are underscored by effective nurturing and support of mentoring relationships. Successful mentoring relationships are built on strong relational ties between mentees and mentors. Delineating the key elements to effective mentoring relationships allow for the forwarding of a basic framework to enhance relational ties within interdisciplinary mentoring in Palliative Care and the proffering of an evidence-based platform for the adoption of a cognitive apprenticeship model that can guide the operationalization of a multiprofessional mentoring program in Palliative Care.
