Success. Job satisfaction. Leadership. How are these developed and nurtured in a nursing career? Can mentors make a difference? They can and do, according to this book---edited by two pioneering researchers in the field of nursing mentorship. Here they explore the conceptual and practical aspects of mentorship and what it means in nursing. They are joined by more than a hundred nurses, including nurse leaders such as Beverly Malone, Marla Salmon, and Joyce Fitzpatrick, who contribute stories, essays, and personal reflections on mentorship. Their voices, in addition to the editor's research, suggest that nurses are inventing a new, evolving, and very meaningful paradigm, which reaps mentorship's classic benefits: career success and advancement personal and professional satisfaction, enhanced self-esteem and confidence, preparation for leadership roles and succession, and strengthening of the profession.

The book describes the dynamics of both informal mentor relationships and structured mentorship programs, such as those used in schools of nursing to help disadvantaged students. In addition to looking at education, the book describes how mentorship plays a role in the practice setting, in professional organizations, and with peers and groups, and how it promotes international and cross-cultural understanding.

PART I: The Mentor Connection

1. Mentorship and Nursing
2. Mentoring for Career and Self-Development

Mentor RememberedAnonymous
Mentoring for SuccessionMargery Adams and Edward Beard, Jr.
Reflections on Mentoring and NetworksGeraldine Felton

3. Women Mentoring Women: Nurse to Nurse

My Story about Women's and Nurses' Mentor RelationshipsCaroline M. Wright
PART II: Perspectives on Mentorship

4. Living the Mentor Connection: Personal Reflections and Stories

Mentoring: A Song of PowerBeverly Malone
Interview of a Teacher-Mentor and Student-ProtÈgÈ:Jane K. Bruker and Melissa L. Charlie
Mentorship: A Personal PerspectiveMarla E. Salmon
On Mentoring: A Skeptic's ViewBarbara Stevens Barnum
A Memorable MentorshipVirginia Trotter Betts
Tapping into Uncommon Wisdom through MentorshipJoEllen Koerner
A Leader's MentorsClara L. Adams-Ender
Mentoring: An Interactive ProcessRuth Watson Lubic
Full Circle: Peer MentorshipCaroline Erni and Susanne Greenblatt
The Privilege and Responsibility of MentoringHattie Bessent
Mentoring and Nursing's Relational CapacitiesJulie MacDonald
5. Mentoring Behaviors versus Mentoring Relationships: A Dissenter's Perspective, Sandra K. Hanneman

PART III: The Process Of Mentorship

6. Negotiating the Mentor Relationship

The ""Unintentional"" Mentor, Marty A. Cooke
Mentorship in a Magnet Nursing Department, Toni Fiore and Laura Cima
PART IV: Contexts For Mentoring

7. Mentoring in the Academic Setting

Mentoring a Student--Growing a Leader, Cynthia J. Rich Schmus
The Mentor Connection for Student Leaders, Robert V. Piemonte
Mentoring Graduate Nursing Students in Home Health Nursing, Felicitas A. dela Cruz, Lyvia M. Villegas, and Angeline M. Jacobs
Group as Mentor: Creating Academic Communities of Scholarly Caring, Kathleen T. Heinrich
My Mentor, Dianna P. Ross
My Role as Mentor, Ventryce Thomas
The Mentor Program, Lucia M. Rusty
Caring for Each Other: The Student and Alumni Mentor Connection, Penny Bamford, Russell Hullstrung, and Mary Plitsas
A Model for Mentoring Junior Nursing Faculty, Regina M. Sallee Williams
Reflections of Mentors: Nurse Leaders in Academe, Mary Boose Walker

8. Mentoring in the Practice Setting

The Head Nurse, Mentorship, Leadership, and Change, Jane O'Malley

9. Mentoring for Scholarship and Research Development

Mentors and Advances in Nursing Science, Jacqueline Fawcett and Ruth McCorkle,
A Mentoring Circle: Facilitating Nursing Research with Staff NursesSavina Schoenhofer and Mariamma Pyngolil

10. Group and Collective Mentorship

Community and Health Professional Mentor RelationshipsPatricia Castiglia
The Good Ol' Girls and Collective MentoringJudith Kline Leavitt and Diana J. Mason
Executive Development and MentorshipRachel Z. Booth, Geraldine (Polly) Bednash, and Michelle F. Pratt
Creating a Legacy of Leadership in the SouthJean A. Kelley and Eula Aiken
PART V: Expanding the Mentor Connection

11. Global and Cross-Cultural Mentoring: Voices from the Field

Mentoring for International Educational Program DevelopmentJoyce J. Fitzpatrick
Global Mentoring: A Collaborative ProcessCarol Picard
The Hunter-Shanghai Project: An International Cross-Cultural Experience in Research MentorshipEvelynn C. Gioiella, Janet N. Natapoff, and Mary Anne N. McDermott
The New Zealand Midwifery Mentor PartnershipKaren Guilliland
The Philippine Nurses' NetworkMarie F. Santiago
Mentoring Experiences at the Academy for Nursing Studies in IndiaM. Prakasamma
A Study of Mentoring and Career Development of Directors of Nursing in South AustraliaGrant Sharples
Mentorship in ItalyRenzo Zanotti
A Russian-American Tale of MentoringIrina Ivancovich
Epilogue
References and Bibliography
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