Over a hundred nurses, including nurse leaders such as Beverly Malone, Marla Salmon, and Joyce Fitzpatrick, contribute stories, essays, and personal reflections on mentorship. Their voices and the author's research, suggests 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 education, the book describes how mentorship plays a role in the practice setting, in professional organizations, with peers and groups, and how it promotes international and cross-cultural understanding.

Contributors

xi

(10)

Prologue and Message to the Reader

xxi

(4)

Acknowledgments

xxv

Part I: The Mentor Connection

3

(52)

1. Mentorship and Nursing

3

(8)

2. Mentoring for Career and Self-Development

11

(24)

Mentor Remembered

Anonymous

Mentoring for Succession

Margery Adams

Edward Beard, Jr.

Reflections on Mentoring and Networks

Geraldene Felton

3. Women Mentoring Women: Nurse to Nurse

35

(20)

My Story about Women's and Nurses' Mentor Relationships

Caroline M. Wright

Part II: Perspectives on Mentorship

55

(52)

4. Living the Mentor Connection: Personal Reflections and Stories

55

(52)

Mentoring: A Song of Power

Beverly Malone

Interview of a Teacher-Mentor and Student-Protege

Jane K. Bruker

Melissa L. Charlie

Mentorship: A Personal Perspective

Marla E. Salmon

On Mentoring: A Skeptic's View

Barbara Stevens Barnum

A Memorable Mentorship

Virginia Trotter Betts

Tapping into Uncommon Wisdom through Mentorship

JoEllen Koerner

A Leader's Mentors

Clara L. Adams-Ender

Mentoring: An Interactive Process

Ruth Watson Lubic

Full Circle: Peer Mentorship

Caroline Erni

Susanne Greenblatt

The Privilege and Responsibility of Mentoring

Hattie Bessent

Mentoring and Nursing's Relational Capacities

Julie MacDonald

Mentoring Behaviors versus Mentoring Relationship: A Dissenter's Perspective

Sandra K. Hanneman

Part III: The Process of Mentorship

107

(14)

5. Negotiating the Mentor Relationship

107

(14)

The "Unintentional" Mentor

Mary A. Cooke

Mentorship in a Magnet Nursing Department

Toni Fiore

Laura Cima

Part IV: Contexts for Mentoring

121

(50)

6. Mentoring in the Academic Setting

121

(20)

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

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

Mary Plitsas

A Model for Mentoring Junior Nursing Faculty

Regina M. Sallee Williams

Reflections of Mentors: Nurse Leaders in Academe

Mary Boose Walker

7. Mentoring in the Practice Setting

141

(10)

The Head Nurse, Mentorship, Leadership, and Change

Jane O'Malley

8. Mentoring for Scholarship and Research Development

151

(7)

Mentors and Advances in Nursing Science

Jacqueline Fawcett

Ruth McCorkle

A Mentoring Circle: Facilitating Nursing Research with Staff Nurses

Savina Schoenhofer

Mariamma Pyngolil

9. Group and Collective Mentorship

158

(13)

Community and Health Professional Mentor Relationships

Patricia Castiglia

The Good Ol' Girls and Collective Mentoring

Judith Kline Leavitt

Diana J. Mason

Executive Development and Mentorship

Rachel Z. Booth

Geraldine (Polly) Bednash

Michelle F. Pratt

Creating a Legacy of Leadership in the South

Jean A. Kelley

Eula Aiken

Part V: Expanding the Mentor Connection

171

(34)

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

171

(34)

Mentoring for International Educational Program Development

Joyce J. Fitzpatrick

Global Mentoring: A Collaborative Process

Carol Picard

The Hunter-Shanghai Project: An International Cross-Cultural Experience in Research Mentorship

Evelynn C. Gioiella

Janet N. Natapoff

Mary Anne N. McDermott

The New Zealand Midwifery Mentor Partnership

Karen Guilliland

The Philippine Nurses' Network

Marie F. Santiago

Mentoring Experiences at the Academy for Nursing Studies in India

M. Prakasamma

A Study of Mentoring and Career Development of Directors of Nursing in South Australia

Grant Sharples

Mentorship in Italy

Renzo Zanotti

A Russian-American Tale of Mentoring

Irina Ivancovich

Epilogue

205

(4)

References and Bibliography

209

(20)

Index

229

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