Alternative Approaches to Mentoring

Topic Various approaches facilitate mentoring for critical care nurses. Clinical Relevance Mentoring is an important strategy to help recruit, retain, and develop nurses with expertise. benefits at all career stages, from novice expert. Effective programs benefit not only mentors mentees but also organizations patients by ensuring adequate numbers of knowledge skills. Purpose require careful planning ensure that the objectives program align needs target audience, resources are available support mentor-mentee relationship. This article identifies opportunities in nursing provides recommendations literature developing effective program. Content Covered described, including supporting retention, providing clinical development, succession. Program logistics explored, such as selecting mentors, matching mentees, setting goals expectations, evaluating In addition, strategies overcoming common barriers mentoring, which include a lack time poor access qualified mentors.