Mentoring in Nursing and Healthcare

Mentoring in Nursing and Healthcare: Supporting career and personal development is an innovative look into mentoring within nursing, and its implications for career success. It provides an up-to-date review of the current research and literature within mentoring in nursing and healthcare, drawing together the distinctive challenges facing nurses and their career development. It proposes new directions and practical ways forward for the future development of formal mentoring programmes in nursing. Offering fresh insight into mentoring principles and how these can be used beyond pre-registration nurse education to support personal career development. This is an essential book for all those commencing, continuing or returning to a nursing career. Key features: Addresses mentoring as a career development toolFocuses on the individual benefits of being a mentee and mentor and how this can aid professional developmentBoth theoretical and practical material is presentedFeatures case studies throughout bookSupports nurses to develop their careersIt is sector specific but has transferability across disciplinesA summary chapter draws together common threads or theoretical perspectives. The book concludes with strategies for future research and progress

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