Mentoring in Nursing: A Dynamic and Collaborative Process - Softcover

Grossman, Sheila C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826107680 ISBN 13: 9780826107688

Publisher: Springer Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Thoroughly updated with new content and wide revisions, this award-winning text provides educators and practitioners with the perspectives and skills they need to bring the next generation of educators, researchers, and clinicians to the forefront of nursing--whether in academia, the hospital or health care facility, and/or through their professional nursing organisation. Completely new content includes:<br> <p><ul> <li>Best practices in mentoring and menteeing </li> <li>Real-life exemplars of effective mentoring </li> <li>Discussion of newest research on mentoring, precepting, and coaching </li> <li>Relationship of mentoring culture and healthy environments in health care </li> <li>Creating collaborative mentorships with the interdisciplinary health team </li> <li>Working across generations in nursing: mentor to mentee </li> <li>Maximising effective leadership through mentoring </li> <li>Future implications for mentoring in the profession </li> <li>Annotated bibliography of key references </li> </ul></p> Topics that have been revised include perceptions of definitions and components of the mentoring process, empowering versus enabling others, the mentor and mentee perspective of mentoring experience, models and strategies of different types of mentoring, creating a mentoring culture, strategies of mentoring for personal and professional improvement, and measurement of mentoring outcomes. <br><br> <strong>Key Features: </strong> <p><ul> <li>Presents case studies of effective mentoring relationships </li> <li>Provides numerous and varied mentoring strategies and models </li> <li>Includes suggestions for measuring outcomes of mentoring </li> <li>Offers best practices in mentoring, precepting, and coaching </li> </ul></p>

About this title

About the Author:

<p><b>Sheila Grossman, PhD, FNP-BC, APRN</b>, is a Professor of Nursing and Coordinator of the Family Nurse Practitioner Track at Fairfield University School of Nursing. She received a BS in nursing from the University of Connecticut, her MS as a Respiratory Clinical Nurse Specialist from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, a post-masters degree as a Family Nurse Practitioner from Fairfield University, and her PhD from the University of Connecticut. She has worked many years as a clinician on a variety of medical, surgical, and critical care units and presently practices as a Family Nurse Practitioner in a primary care clinic. She is the coauthor of The New Leadership Challenge: Creating A Preferred Future for Nursing, which is in its third edition (2009) and received an AJN book of the Year Award and has also received an AJN Book of the Year Award for Mentoring in Nursing: A Dynamic and Collaborative Process (2007), and coauthored Gerontological Nurse Certification Review in 2008 with Dr. Meredith Wallace Kazer. She is the author of multiple chapters and journal articles on leadership, mentoring, gerontology, adult health, and palliative care. Her research interests focus on symptom management in palliative care, leadership, pedagogy, cultural competence, and adult patient outcome studies. She is active in Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society, American Association of Critical Care Nurses, National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculty, American College of Nurse Practitioners, and is a certified End of Life Nursing Education Consortium Educator and a Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education Accreditation Site Visitor. She is the winner of the 2009 Josephine Dolan Award for Outstanding Contributions to Nursing Education sponsored by the CT Nurses Association. </p>

From the Back Cover:

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Thoroughly updated with new content and wide revisions, this award-winning text provides educators and practitioners with the perspectives and skills they need to bring the next generation of educators, researchers, and clinicians to the forefront of nursing—whether in academia, the hospital or health care facility, and/or through their professional nursing organization. Completely new content includes:

Best practices in mentoring and menteeing Real-life exemplars of effective mentoring Discussion of newest research on mentoring, precepting, and coaching Relationship of mentoring culture and healthy environments in health care Creating collaborative mentorships with the interdisciplinary health team Working across generations in nursing: mentor to mentee Maximizing effective leadership through mentoring Future implications for mentoring in the profession Annotated bibliography of key references

Topics that have been revised include perceptions of definitions and components of the mentoring process, empowering versus enabling others, the mentor and mentee perspective of mentoring experience, models and strategies of different types of mentoring, creating a mentoring culture, strategies of mentoring for personal and professional improvement, and measurement of mentoring outcomes. Key Features:

Presents case studies of effective mentoring relationships Provides numerous and varied mentoring strategies and models Includes suggestions for measuring outcomes of mentoring Offers best practices in mentoring, precepting, and coaching "

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0826107680
• ISBN 13: 9780826107688
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 214