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Mentoring Relationship Preferences Of Early, Middle, And Late Career Stage Registered Nurses, Tonya M. Harewood-Lawrence
Mentoring Relationship Preferences Of Early, Middle, And Late Career Stage Registered Nurses, Tonya M. Harewood-Lawrence
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Registered nurses perceive the healthcare work environment as stressful. Stress can have a negative effect on patient care and nurses' attrition and health. In the literature, mentors have been identified as having a positive influence on nurses. This qualitative study was an examination of nurses in mentoring relationships in the early, middle, and late career stage and working in a hospital setting. Two research questions addressed mentoring relationship preferences and mentors' influence on perceived stress. Fourteen nurses were interviewed in the study. The conceptual framework was based on the career and psychosocial mentoring theory, the mentoring the adult learner theory, …