What does mentoring offer nurses?
Support for new leaders
A relationship to discuss leadership issues and challenges
a sounding board for ideas
confidence-building feedback
Conversations for continuous learning
Reflection, insight from experience
Transfer of learning into practice
Nurturing champions & leaders
Furthering knowledge and information sharing
Engaging emerging
champions and leaders
Fostering networking and
group participation
Extended Networks
Linking peers within and beyond regions
Recognition and development
Personal, professional development and encouragement
Reducing isolation
Feeling connected, belonging
Leadership Opportunities
Ways to “step-up” to further develop yourself
and others
Recognising and valuing the knowledge you have to share
Empowering nurses to take on leadership roles
Creating A Mentoring Culture
Supporting emerging nurse-leaders
Increasing informal mentoring, networking and sharing expertise
Valuing and practicing mentoring as a core skill
of nurse-leaders
Want to be or have a mentor?
Produced by Ann Rolfe