MENTORING FOR MEDICAL VOLUNTEERS

Г.Б. Цырендоржиев

Кяхтинский филиал ГАПОУ

«Байкальский базовый медицинский колледж МЗ РБ», г. Кяхта

Научный руководитель Д.Э. Дыржинова

MENTORING FOR MEDICAL VOLUNTEERS

(based on Kyakhta branch of the Baikal Basic Medical College)

Medical mentoring and volunteering today are fast developing trends in youth policy. Mentoring is a constant dialogue, interpersonal communication. Communication is necessary to formulate the goals of teamwork correctly, to offer the possibility of solving different tasks. Mentoring is a long and time–consuming process. The main tasks and functions of mentors in the field of medical volunteering are: increasing social activity and developing general and professional skills of future healthcare specialists.

In Kyakhta Medical School since 1991 there was a club "Mercy", which was founded by Gulkina Olga Dmitrievna who was the teacher of "Fundamentals of nursing". Later, the club heads were Dansarunova Tatiana Dugarovna and Mikhailova Ekaterina Trifonovna. The club consisted of 20 students. They provided assistance to elderly people and WWII veterans. With the development of the volunteer movement in our country, the club “Mercy” was reorganized into the movement "Medical Volunteers". Marina Aleksandrovna Mansurovskaya headed this movement. At that time there were about 50 student volunteers. Currently, the head is Lyudmila Grigoryevna Staritsina. The number of volunteers has also increased and now there are more than 400 students.

The main idea of the volunteer movement "Medical Volunteers" is to increase the medical literacy of the population, mostly young people and to promote a healthy lifestyle of the younger generation. "Medical Volunteers" stands in solidarity with the state policy and defines the most important task in its work: promotion of a healthy lifestyle and prevention of diseases.

Volunteer activities at Kyakhta branch of the Baikal Basic Medical College include the following:

- social volunteering;

- patriotic volunteering;

- educational volunteering.

Educational volunteering. Every year the volunteer organization holds different events and participates in various actions. First of all, medical volunteers  run the campaign  aimed at the support of a healthy lifestyle, healthy nutrition (the actions "World Clean Hands Day", "Patient Safety", "Health Bonus", "International Smoking Cessation Day", "Healthy Lifestyle", "World Salt Reduction Week", "Week of popularization of calorie counting"), prevention of HIV infection and other socially significant diseases (actions "World Heart Day", "World Stroke Day", "Diabetes Day", "Learn more about HIV", "World AIDS Day", "Caution, COVID-19, flu", "STOP AIDS!", "Information tent"). The important task of healthcare is not only to treat, but also to prevent the development of diseases.

Social volunteering. Within the framework of the actions «The elderly lives nearby», «The Day of Kindness and Respect», «Kindness in the village», «Helping Hand to the Elderly», the medical volunteers of our college help the participants of the WWII, labor veterans, elderly people living in their hometown in digging potatoes, cleaning of house and house area, wet cleaning of the apartment. This interaction between students and veterans and the elderly teaches compassion, empathy and compassion, which is very important for future medical professionals.

Together with traffic police and military traffic police volunteers talk to drivers about the dangers of alcohol consumption while driving and the consequences of alcohol-related accidents, distribute leaflets to prevent accidents and reduce road traffic injuries (actions "Don't drink while driving!", "Pedestrian - to the crossing", "Safety traffic").

Patriotic volunteering. Medical college volunteers also take part in patriotic actions - "Meeting on the Day of Heroes of the Fatherland", the opening of memorial plaques to 4 graduates of the medical school who died in the line of duty.

For the experience exchange medical volunteers participated in the 1st Meeting of the Russian School Movement in Kyachtinsky district, the training «Equal teaches equal», the action «United Volunteer Day».

Also, student volunteers carry out career guidance work in the schools of Kyakhta «I am the future medical professional! » to support students in their career choices.

Mentoring activity is one of the most important ways to influence the student’s behavior and an effective form of personal development, both a ward and a mentor. The mentor’s attitudes and values are aimed at developing through personal example the basic human, moral, social and civic qualities of student volunteers. Therefore, the mentor must have a high level of spiritual and moral education.

Staritsyna Lyudmila Grigorievna is a mentor of the volunteer movement «Medical Volunteer» at  Kyakhta Basic Medical College. She came to teaching from practical healthcare, having extensive work experience. Lyudmila Grigorievna worked as a nursing officer of the Kyakhtinsky Central District Hospital. Now Lyudmila Grigorievna teaches the course «Nurse assistant». She also graduated from Kyakhta Medical College.

The main tasks of the volunteer movement «Medical Volunteer» at Kyakhta branch of Baikal Medical College are:

1. Experience in social interaction and responsible leadership. Volunteering gives students the opportunity to prove themselves in various models of interaction, to get the skills necessary in later life.

2.  Public and civic duty.  Volunteer activity is an important component of patriotism.

3.  Organization of student’s free time.

During their activities, medical volunteers learn to do their own work and also carry out mentoring activities with the students of the elementary courses, and the new volunteers. Medical volunteers of Kyakhta branch of Baikal Basic Medical College is a large team that provides wide assistance to practical healthcare of their district.

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