Mentoring in Nursing: A Dynamic and Collaborative Process

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Mentoring in Nursing will help inspire a more cohesive, flexible, and empowered nursing force, whether in academia, the hospital unit, or health care facility.
Featuring:

• Definitions and components of the mentoring process
• Models and strategies: classic, multiple, and peer mentoring; precepting, coaching, or shadowing models
• Mentor and mentee perspectives
• Best practices in nurse mentoring, including multicultural competency
• Mentoring evaluation tools

It is incumbent then on all of us in the helping professions to be cognizant of the need for continued support and guidance of the elders, but the elders must also listen and learn from the young, and the young must help each other if the profession's covenant with the public is to be kept.--From the Foreword by Grayce Sills, PhD, RN

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Mentoring in Nursing will help inspire a more cohesive, flexible, and empowered nursing force, whether in academia, the hospital unit, or health care facility.

Featuring:

• Definitions and components of the mentoring process


• Models and strategies: classic, multiple, and peer mentoring; precepting, coaching, or shadowing models


• Mentor and mentee perspectives


• Best practices in nurse mentoring, including multicultural competency


• Mentoring evaluation tools

"It is incumbent then on all of us in the helping professions to be cognizant of the need for continued support and guidance of the elders, but the elders must also listen and learn from the young, and the young must help each other if the profession's covenant with the public is to be kept."--From the Foreword by Grayce Sills, PhD, RN

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Reviewer:Helen Ewing, DHSc, MN(A. T. Still University)
Description:This book endorses the need to increase mentorship in nursing to change the healthcare environment to be more inspiring and empowering for nurses. As nurses are often referred to as the backbone of the healthcare system, it is only prudent to ensure that they are content in their positions; this book provides theories and strategies to promote mentorship in nursing in support of this workplace satisfaction.
Purpose:The purpose is to stimulate more nurses to mentor each other. This book does this through providing tools to help change the culture of nursing to promote a more positive and empowered environment. This empowerment is accomplished through discussing the theories of mentorship in nursing in addition to including effective methods to mentor others and empower the mentee. Topics that are addressed in the book include: how to encourage others, the roles of mentors and mentees, and how mentorship can be implemented in all types of healthcare organizations.
Audience:This book would be valuable to all nurses as nurses are constantly in mentorship roles and often are the mentees. As the profession of nursing requires continual growth in knowledge, skills, and critical thinking, mentoring must always be a part of nursing and knowing how best to promote successful mentor-mentee relationships and outcomes is warranted.
Features:This is an easy read and the book is full of useful information. Much of the material is presented in a bulleted format and tables which highlight the main points and enhances the capture of information. Each chapter has a conclusion that summarizes the main concepts.
Assessment:With the increasing shortage of nurses worldwide, finding ways to increase morale and keep nurses in nursing is paramount. Mentoring has been supported as an effective way to enhance nurses' interactions and satisfaction with their work environment. This book effectively illustrates methods to increase and promote mentorship at all levels of nursing. It has come at a critical time in nursing and provides practical suggestions, through mentorship, to inspire the nursing workforce.

Sheila C. Grossman, Ph.D, APRN-BC, received her baccalaureate and doctoral degrees from the University of Connecticut, her master's degree from the University of Massachusetts in bio-physiological nursing with a clinical nurse specialty in respiratory nursing, and her post-master's certificate as a family nurse practitioner from Fairfield University. Dr. Grossman has completed the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Genetics Fellowship and the AACN Leadership Fellowship. She has practiced as a staff and charge nurse on a variety of medical-surgical and critical care units, and been a Critical Care Instructor at Hartford Hospital and St. Francis Hospital & Medical Center in Hartford, CT. She has taught nursing at the University of Connecticut, currently is a Professor and Specialty Director of the Family Nurse Practitioner Program at Fairfield University, and affiliates clinically with Yale New Haven Hospital. She works as a nurse practitioner weekly at Trinity College Health Center.

Dr. Grossman has presented and written multiple national and regional presentations and publications in the areas of her research on leadership, evidence based practice, pathophysiology, geriatrics, primary and critical care patient outcome studies, and nursing education. She is a past member of the Connecticut State Board of Nursing, and a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Mu Chi Chapter, American Critical Care Nurses Association, the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculty, and the American Nurses Association.