The presentation titled "Mastering the Mentor’s Role" by Dr. Mrs. Jemima A. Dennis-Antwi provides a detailed overview of a professional mentoring experience in Ghana under the Ministry of Health's 2022 Professional Mentorship Program (PMP). It covers the national policy on mentorship, profiles of mentees, and the structured methods used, which included six sessions over nine months conducted through Zoom, WhatsApp, and phone calls. Mentorship was portrayed as intentional, supportive, and motivational, requiring availability, active listening, and mutual respect. Mentees benefited significantly, gaining knowledge, expanding networks, and receiving both personal and professional guidance. They viewed the mentor as a dependable and nurturing figure, likening her to a mother, and expressed satisfaction with the mentorship process. Challenges were acknowledged, and recommendations were made to enhance future programs. Overall, the experience was impactful, with mentees able to set and pursue meaningful goals through a well-structured, empathetic mentoring approach.

Nurses and midwives are a formidable group of health professionals that form over 50 percent of the health workforce in every country. Academic preparation of these workforces has evolved over the years from apprenticeship levels through assistance to a current cohort of highly educated workforce with diploma, first, second and third degrees from many public and private educational institutions. Graduation from institutions of learning becomes the initial step as nurses and midwives into career development and serves as the springboard for fulfilling career diversification into what is commonly set into clinical, education and research and administration and management.

Regulation is central to effective practice in every profession and has long been applied as a means to public health protection against malpractices and misconduct. Global professional bodies such as international Confederation of Midwives (ICM), International Council of Nurses (ICN) and governments have policies, guidelines and ACTs of parliament that direct regulatory systems. Regulation is a mechanism to raise the status of midwives and nurses to ensure that they have authority to act on their own professional judgements within their scope of practice.

In order to attain the Sector’s objective of ensuring affordable, equitable, easily accessible and Universal Health Coverage (UHC), the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Ghana Health Service (GHS) recognize human resource for health (HRH) as a backbone for national development. In 2020, three critical documents of the health sector were released to guide UHC-related actions and their implementation