evaluation of mentoring program

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Evaluation Methods in Nursing Mentorship Program (Author 's Full Name (Instructor 's Name (Course Title (Date Submitted

Abstract

The presents a brief literature review of what is known about mentoring program , both quantitative and qualitative results . It is not only important to measure the increase of the mentorship programs gain and advantage . Studies can also approach this through defining and determining the aesthetic , more humanistic approach of mentorship program . The presents its suggested implementation of the mentoring program , and includes detailed account on the evaluation process

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Evaluation Methods in Nursing Mentorship Program

Background

In any other organizational field , the expertise of mentors is deemed as an influential factor in shaping a leader 's future . Strongly adopted and promoted in the realm of business leadership , the nursing profession has explored the beneficial implications of mentorship among nurses to help alleviate nursing shortage and retention . Mentoring relationships in nursing usually occurs at the higher educational level of nurses However , the mentorship relationship in nursing can be deemed necessary in the aspect of enhancing mutual careers through the early stages , and later on a nurse 's profession

Mentoring programs are furthered studied and explored to gain measurements on its efficacy and relevance in addressing pressing issues and concern in the nursing profession . Some literature reviewed for this maintains that it is possible to initiate mentor-protygy relationships in the early stage of nursing professionals . As several studies have suggested (Murdaugh (1998 , Glass and Walter (2000 , and Thompson (2000 , mentoring provides personal and professional growth which shares a process to learn , care , reciprocate , commit , and friendship between the relationship shared by a mentor and his or her protygy

Mentoring programs in the US

Mentoring programs has been explored over the years and is not a trend currently which has recently emerged in the nursing profession . Although extensively adapted in business context , mentoring programs have been introduced in the 1990 's to various medical groups and organizations (Buddeberg-Fischer and Herta , 2006 . Most mentoring programs started in the nursing field , but slowly penetrated the field of medical students and doctors as years passed . According to Buddeberg-Fischer and Herta (2006 , there exist several mentoring models : the classical one-to-one mentoring , small group mentoring supervised by a mentor , individual or group mentoring with a number of mentors or the multiple-mentor experience model , and mentoring among co-equals or peer mentoring Literature review suggests that different mentoring programs studied across time have specified both long and short-termed goals and aims Aside from providing guidance and support during the earlier phase in professional immersion , mentorship programs has yielded relationships which has helped in personal and career growth and development in various mentor-protygy relationships

The Aesthetic Value of Mentoring Program

Based on the literature reviewed for this study , empirical investigations of mentorship in the d of nursing and medicine as well , has only produced results based on the academic and professional outcomes of the program . In the study by Owens and Patton...