Abstract

Mentoring Competency of Nurse Managers and Career Advancement of Staff Nurses: A Model for Professional Development

Anna Liza Rivero Alfonso

Mentoring helps cultivate nurse leaders, retain nurses, and diversify the nursing workforce. By strengthening the nursing workforce, nursing mentorship improves the quality of patient care and outcomes. Widespread uses of nurse mentoring programs have been employed to produce positive outcomes and decrease turnover and assess job satisfaction. Mentoring programs foster support and socialization of new nurses to an organization. Mentoring has been an effective strategy for nurturing nurses in the increasingly stressful and challenging health care work environment. Mentoring is especially useful in helping novice nurses in the healthcare world, improve their self-confidence, understand moral and ethical issues and develop real-world skills not covered in nursing school. Mentoring helps more experienced nurse’s move into leadership positions and shift the focus of their careers

Published Date: 2021-02-26; Received Date: 2021-01-15