Mentoring up: A grounded theory of nurse‐to‐nurse mentoring

Abstract

The theory has implications for healthcare organisations, nursing education and individual nurses. Mentoring Up expounds on the interpersonal connections and reciprocal interactions vital for successful nurse-to-nurse mentoring.

Effective mentoring is key to enhancing practice and developing the next generation of nurses

“…Confidencing was further defined as internal or what the protégé knows about themselves and external or what others know about the protégé’s ability to perform the professional role. Three dimensions of the mentoring relationship which span all phases of confidencing were identified as earnest intentions, filial bonds and trustworthiness 1. These findings culminated in the theory of Mentoring up.…”

A Model of Factors Determining Nurses’ Attitudes towards Learning Communicative Competences

“…There are a plethora of examples from daily life in a nurse's professional work, where people presenting the syndromes of burnout persist in their professions, and their actions affect new nurses negatively. Based on the assumption above, the function of the mentor in a workplace may turn out to be of key importance (e.g., nurse-to-nurse mentoring [55]), i.e., a person introducing another person to the profession, who, through highly developed empathic tendency, not always supported by developed communicative skills, may shape and create a new generation of nurses in a positive manner. The nurse-to-nurse mentoring [55] may turn out to be an efficient method of reinforcing soft competencies in nurses, which may complement the developed model of factors determining attitudes toward acquiring communicative competences in nurses.…”

“…Based on the assumption above, the function of the mentor in a workplace may turn out to be of key importance (e.g., nurse-to-nurse mentoring [55]), i.e., a person introducing another person to the profession, who, through highly developed empathic tendency, not always supported by developed communicative skills, may shape and create a new generation of nurses in a positive manner. The nurse-to-nurse mentoring [55] may turn out to be an efficient method of reinforcing soft competencies in nurses, which may complement the developed model of factors determining attitudes toward acquiring communicative competences in nurses. Moreover, a mentor may recognize a nurse's personality better and select an appropriate method of shaping a positive attitude towards acquiring communication skills [56].…”

A Model of Factors Determining the Attitude Towards Learning Communicative Competences of The Nurses

“…Based on the assumption above, the function of the mentor in a workplace may turn out to be of key importance (e.g. nurse-to-nurse mentoring [52]), i.e. a person introducing another person to the profession, who, through highly developed empathic tendency, not always backed with developed communicative skills, may shape and create a new generation of nurses in a positive manner.…”

“…a person introducing another person to the profession, who, through highly developed empathic tendency, not always backed with developed communicative skills, may shape and create a new generation of nurses in a positive manner. The nurse-to-nurse mentoring [52] may turn out an efficient method of reinforcing soft competencies in nurses, which may complement the developed model of factors determining attitudes toward acquiring communicative competences in nurses.…”