Interprofessional Mentors

When a mentee needs to develop transferrable skills, such as communication skills, leadership, research, organizational development or educational skills, a mentor who may not be a nurse and who may not work in oncology, may have the appropriate expertise. For this reason, we recruit outside of the nursing profession and already have a number of mentors that are:

• Social workers
• Physicians
• Pharmacists
• Policy makers

This approach has been encouraged in various healthcare settings, as illustrated by these publications:

Inter-professional collaboration key to safe and patient-centered healthcare delivery

Inter-Professional Care - Health Force Ontario