Generational mentoring

Healthcare organizations struggle with the best way to integrate new staff members, including novice and experienced nurses returning to practice, into the organization. One way of accomplishing this integration is mentoring. Mentoring is a process of guiding the development of another person. The methods used to mentor staff members can be influenced by the generation to which they belong. Each generation typically experiences different events that shape their expectations and responses. Consideration of the influence of these events can improve the effectiveness of the mentoring process.     

Win-win mentoring

Learn strategies to build and enhance mentor-protégé relationships, expand your experience, and help new nurses develop.     

Mentors, not assessors.

The English National Board supports the development of a mentorship scheme for Project 2000 courses. The lack of clarity regarding the role and function of mentors continues. This paper suggests that the role of mentor should be restricted to assisting, befriending, guiding, advising and counselling students, and should not incorporate the roles of supervisor, assessor, preceptor or facilitator. Some of the difficulties experienced by one college of nursing in developing such a scheme are explored.     

Do Nurses Need Mentors?

This paper examines the influence of sex role socialization on the establishment and maintenance of mentoring relationships. Traditional conceptualizations of this process have evolved from male culture and experience; consequently, women have had less access than have men to this career advancement mechanism. Nurses, however, have developed a continuum of sponsorship activities that are more useful than traditional mentoring relationships in a practice-oriented profession as well as more compatible with female socialization.