The Value of Mentoring in Nursing: An Honor and a Gift

Gruber-Page, Marcia

doi:10.1188/16.onf.420-422

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“…These findings are neither unique to women, nor exclusive to health faculties [1, 70], however they reinforce the need for female health academics, especially early career academics, to have access to quality mentorship [4, 29, 71]. While there have been few empirical studies that testify to the effectiveness of mentoring in health academia [4, 19], there is a broad body of evidence that supports the need for mentorship and this review provides further evidence supporting recommendations to mainstream mentoring in medicine [4] and nursing [69, 72].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 86%

Benefits, barriers and enablers of mentoring female health academics: An integrative review

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This integrative literature review synthesizes the primary research evidence on mentoring female health academics published from 2000 to 2018, to identify the benefits, enablers and barriers to mentoring women. The need for this review is underpinned by the magnitude of change in higher education, the high number of women in health disciplines, limited progress in advancing women’s academic careers, escalating role expectations, faculty shortages and staff turnover. Data were sourced from Scopus, PubMed, EMBASE and Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature. Twenty-seven studies were included. Although effective mentoring facilitates personal and career development, academic craftsmanship, psychosocial support and job satisfaction, it is complicated by organizational factors and personal and relational dynamics. Enablers of mentoring are mentor availability and expertise, supportive relationships, mutuality and responsiveness. Lack of, or inadequate mentoring compromise women’s job satisfaction, career development and academic productivity. Providing female health academics access to experienced, well-connected mentors with common interests who are committed to advancing their career, is an investment in optimizing potential, promoting supportive work environments and increasing productivity and retention. Realizing the institutional potential that mentoring female health academics offers, is contingent on academic leaders valuing mentorship as faculty business and understanding the role that the contemporary academic environment plays in achieving mentoring outcomes. Further empirical and longitudinal research is needed to evaluate effective approaches for mentoring women in the contemporary academic environment.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 86%

Benefits, barriers and enablers of mentoring female health academics: An integrative review

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“…A coach is defined as an "experienced person who shares their knowledge or helps someone achieve goals to facili-tate the learning process in their role" [17] while developing a mutual relationship. [18] Coaching is defined as "one-to-one conversations that focus on enhancing learning and developing a sense of responsibility".…”

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Using a research coach to enhance evidence-based practice integration in undergraduate nursing

D’Souza

2021

JNEP

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Background and objective: Coaching contributes to the understanding and application of knowledge in nursing practice. This study aims to examine the implementation of a research coach to enhance evidence-based practice integration in undergraduate nursing.Methods: Design: This study used a quasi-experimental non-equivalent post-test-only design. Settings and participants: Forty second-year undergraduate nursing students were invited to participate in the study at a public university in 2019. Methods: The evidence-based practice (EBP) questionnaire was used, and the primary outcomes were attitudes, skills, and capabilities of EBP. The undergraduate students worked with a third-year level research coach to engage in evidence-based nursing using clinical case studies. Results: The findings expressed the students’ readiness to capture, select, and organize their critical thinking skills through case studies and online discussion. Students perceived that they needed versatile skills in the interpretation and application of evidence-based nursing.Conclusions: A research coach played an essential role for novice student nurses in improving decision-making skills and transition to practice in this setting. The research coach model enables critical thinking and problem-solving skills through interaction and case studies.

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“…Searching “mentor”, “mentee”, and “mentoring” in PubMed (August 1, 2016) resulted in retrieval over 10,000 articles, many of them in the nursing literature (Chen et al. ; Gruber‐Page ; Sood et al. ) and in articles of higher education (Fleming et al.…”

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“…Even though "mentoring" and mentoring relationships in different settings have been described for millennia, formal research on this topic has been published since the early 1980s including the seminal work by Kathy E. Kram entitled Mentoring at Work: Developmental Relationships on Organizational Life (1985). Searching "mentor", "mentee", and "mentoring" in PubMed (August 1, 2016) resulted in retrieval over 10,000 articles, many of them in the nursing literature (Chen et al 2016;Gruber-Page 2016;Sood et al 2016) and in articles of higher education (Fleming et al 2013) including physicians during residency training (Fig. 1).…”

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Mentors without Borders

Muenke

2016

Mol Genet Genomic Med

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Mentors without Borders is a proposed international mentoring network that allows trainee geneticists to identify mentors from a list of volunteers who are not at one's own institution. It is an experiment, a matchmaker between a junior and a senior professional. These mentors do not replace the mentors at the home institution but allow the mentee, if desired, to identify mentors outside of their own institution. We envision that different ways of communicating and/or different mentor‐mentee relationships may prove beneficial to the trainee and the mentor.

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The Value of Mentoring in Nursing: An Honor and a Gift

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Benefits, barriers and enablers of mentoring female health academics: An integrative review

Benefits, barriers and enablers of mentoring female health academics: An integrative review

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