How do healthcare professionals perceive themselves after a mentoring programme? A qualitative study based on the reflective exercise of ‘writing a letter to yourself’

Zannini, Lucia; Cattaneo, Cesarina; Brugnolli, Anna; Saiani, Luisa

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2648.2011.05615.x

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“…They also differ from structured programmes that teach nurses to be mentors (Zannini et al. ). Becoming a leader and mentor was not a conscious objective, nor was their learning the result of a specific instruction.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…) and mentor development (Zannini et al. ) that demonstrate significant professional and personal benefits. However, the experiences of becoming a nurse leader‐mentor revealed in this study highlight some considerations regarding preparation and development of nurse mentors in current nursing contexts.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These learning experiences contrast with the functionalist mentoring of formal programmes where mentorship corresponds with organisational norms and specific learning outcomes (Blauvelt and Spath 2008;Myall, Levett-Jones and Lathlean 2008) and with the continuing and purposeful association of a classic mentoring relationship (Grossman 2007). They also differ from structured programmes that teach nurses to be mentors (Zannini et al 2011). Becoming a leader and mentor was not a conscious objective, nor was their learning the result of a specific instruction.…”

Section: Journey To Become a Nurse Leader Mentormentioning

confidence: 97%

“…In healthcare organisations where time and staff are costly resources, protracted mentoring relationships are likely be inappropriate/irrelevant and programmes for leader development/career progression will typically be time-limited with clear expectations around knowledge and skill acquisition. There are a range of structured programmes supporting nurse leader (Fielden et al 2009;Johnson et al 2011) and mentor development (Zannini et al 2011) that demonstrate significant professional and personal benefits. However, the experiences of becoming a nurse leader-mentor revealed in this study highlight some considerations regarding preparation and development of nurse mentors in current nursing contexts.…”

Section: Journey To Become a Nurse Leader Mentormentioning

confidence: 99%

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Journey to become a nurse leader mentor: past, present and future influences

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Journey to become a nurse leader mentor: past, present and future influences Mentorship, often viewed as a central capacity of leadership, is acknowledged as influential in growing nurse leaders. Mentoring relationships are perceived as empowering connections offering a dynamic guided experience to promote growth and development in personal and professional life. A hermeneutic phenomenological approach informed by Heidegger and Gadamer was used to explore understandings and experiences of mentorship for nurse leadership by 13 Australian nurse leaders. We found that learning and transformation associated with becoming a nurse leader mentor was experienced as an enduring evolutionary process. Participants' life journeys provided experiences that developed their understandings and established their personal identity as a leader and mentor. We considered the journey motif in terms of its inextricable connection with lived time and used Heidegger's ecstasies of temporality as a lens to understand how the temporal dimensions of past, present and future influenced and shaped the development of nurse leader mentors. We found that our temporal existence influences interpretation of ourselves and the world. Individuals can benefit from multiple separate mentoring interludes, with different mentors, over a lifetime. For some nurses, becoming a leader and mentor is a lifelong transformative process that grows from diverse experience and influential role modelling rather than formal instruction.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Journey To Become a Nurse Leader Mentormentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Journey To Become a Nurse Leader Mentormentioning

confidence: 99%

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Journey to become a nurse leader mentor: past, present and future influences

2013

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“…While we are aware of no continuing professional development courses for pharmacists that integrate mentorship, we note these are used extensively in other professions such as nursing. Recent research with health professionals reinforces mentoring as a strategy for career advancement, professional development and leadership development [20,21] . Structured mentorship programmes alone have been used to introduce and implement changes in pharmacist‐direct patient care practice [22] …”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%