Winter 2025 4th Year Nursing Student Leadership Experience - Mentors/Projects Sought
Experience scope
Categories
Leadership Public health Healthcare Community engagement Social justiceSkills
leadership communication project management interprofessional collaborationOur 4th year nursing students take their senior nursing leadership course in either their last or second last term before graduation.
The leaders, who we call mentors, that work with our students can expect our students to come to your organization with:
- a solid knowledge in nursing and healthcare
- strong critical thinking and analytical skills
- introductory statistics and research skills
- solid understand of the social determinants of health
- ability to support a diverse number of projects and initiatives
If there are specific learner capabilities required, such as speaking a particularly language, or skills with video editing, this is something that we can try and accommodate.
Learners
Deliverables are negotiable, and will seek to align the needs of the learners and the organization.
Deliverables should be achievable within 192 hours over an 11-week period. This course runs in fall, winter and spring/summer term. There is potential to have students over several terms to work on different aspects of a larger project.
Final project deliverables are highly variable and based on project type. Can be negotiated in discussions with students and assigned nursing instructor.
Project Examples
Requirements
Ideal mentors/projects are those within non-profit agencies whose work is in addressing some level of the social determinants of health. Our students are unable to work with private enterprises where the purpose of the student work is to tied directly or indirectly to increasing sales or profits.
Students are expected to complete this fieldwork course with an assigned mentor, either individually or in groups (size of groups can vary).
During this experience, students will consolidate and apply prior learning from clinical and theory courses to observe the influence of evidence, policy, and legislation on decision making in complex health systems and leadership teams.
This is not just a project-based course.
We are seeking leaders who are open to mentoring students and will allow students to engage in interprofessional teams to understand and integrate interprofessional competencies in collaborative team environments.
This will require the leader, who we call a mentor, to allow the student(s) to work closely with them on diverse day-to-day leadership activities. A wide variety of student activities can be experienced depending on the team and context.
In addition, students will complete leadership projects situated in the needs and requirements of the mentor team and/or organization. Collectively, fieldwork deliverables ought to be useful to and are negotiated with the hosting organization.
Projects students have worked on in the past include:
- Developed an online feedback tool to better support the annual appraisal of casual nursing employees.
- Restructured a health clinic to improve patient flow, confidentiality, and hygiene.
- Designed an educational tool for nursing aides in a long-term care setting to improve the management of responsive behaviours among people with dementia.
- Created a lobbying framework to petition for the inclusion of mental health first and suicide prevention training in health education programs.
- Completed literature searches to support the development of an obesity education program.
- Contributed to the development of governmental policies in response to recent legislative changes.
- reviewing and updating organization policies and procedures
- Creation of a 2-day educational workshops for volunteers on non-violent crisis intervention
- Grant writing and applications for funding through various governmental organizations
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
Myself or members of my team are willing to provide mentorship to the students over the duration of the course?
I recognize that as part of my mentorship role I must complete a short midterm and final evaluation
How do you describe your approach to mentorship?
Provide a brief description of the type(s) of activities or project work you have available for the nursing leadership students.