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Mentorship: increasing retention probabilities
Author(s) -
LENERS DEBRA WOODARD,
WILSON VICKI W.,
CONNOR PEGGY,
FENTON JOANNE
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of nursing management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.925
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1365-2834
pISSN - 0966-0429
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2934.2006.00641.x
Subject(s) - mentorship , workforce , socialization , nursing , quality (philosophy) , nursing management , psychology , medicine , medical education , political science , social psychology , philosophy , epistemology , law
Retaining nurses is a significant workforce issue. Experienced nurses in particular are getting harder to retain within hospitals and the discipline at large. One solution to boost retention is to give serious attention to professional socialization activities through contemporary nurse mentorship experiences. The authors contend that contemporary mentoring programmes, targeting developmental quality of life issues of the expert nurse, would appreciably benefit retention programmes within the hospital environment.