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2017

Mentoring

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Paradigm Shift In Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Education Delivery, Tammy Young, Julie Gassaway, Christine Willis, Kimberly Queen Jun 2017

Paradigm Shift In Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Education Delivery, Tammy Young, Julie Gassaway, Christine Willis, Kimberly Queen

Christine Willis

Nurse educators expressed uneasiness and reluctance when rehabilitation hospital’s strategic objectives focused on increasing person centered care by promoting chronic disease self-management approaches that included peer delivery of group education classes for persons with spinal cord injury. Conventional self-care group education classes delivered by nurse educators were changed to interactive designs led by peer mentors. While peers assumed the lead in classroom education delivery, nurses continued to play important roles in program development and evaluation and in the provision of medical expertise as it was needed during classes.

After witnessing immediate and dramatic improvements in patient engagement during class, nurses …

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Importance Of And Satisfaction With Characteristics Of Mentoring Among Nursing Faculty, Jacklyn Gentry May 2017

Importance Of And Satisfaction With Characteristics Of Mentoring Among Nursing Faculty, Jacklyn Gentry

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The nursing faculty shortage and its contributing factors have been well documented in the literature. Contributory factors include lack of graduate prepared faculty, difficulty recruiting and retaining faculty, and a decrease in job satisfaction within the faculty role. The use of mentoring programs has the potential to impact the nursing faculty shortage by increasing job satisfaction while providing novice faculty with additional support during the transition from clinical nurse to nursing faculty.

The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between the importance of and satisfaction with characteristics of mentoring in full time nursing faculty teaching in baccalaureate …

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