Fast Facts for Career Success in Nursing

This is an empowering and motivating piece. From the perspective of a student nurse, this book will be a guide for students as well as new nurses to embrace mentorship and all it has to offer. -- Ugo Ogbuagu, BSN Student. "Dr. Vance's pioneering work on mentorship has provided us with the language, understanding, and strategies for building these essential professional support relationships. This book extends her work in practical and useful ways that will help us build the new generation of excellent clinical experts, advocates and nurse leaders." -Diana J. Mason, PhD, RN, FAAN. Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, The American Journal of Nursing. (From the Foreword). This newest addition to the Fast Facts series teaches the basics and more about recent nursing graduates seeking to engage in a mentor- protege relationship. The book takes the reader through a quick history of why mentoring is important, how to identify a protege worthy of mentoring, and then how to develop and maintain that healthy mentor-protege relationship. This book provides the necessary tools to help a mentor provide the timely support to the novice nurse through difficult and sometimes frightening times to shape and contribute to confidence-building, and retain the talented novice professional nurse. Written by Connie Vance, an innovator in nursing mentorship research, this book provides insight for recent nurse graduates on selecting and working with a mentor. Following the comprehensive and concise Fast Facts format, this book presents new nurses with tools to identify the perfect mentor match, and cultivate the relationship in ways that provide valuable career-building insight. It provides guidelines to ensure a truly valuable and influential mentor relationship, contributing to the overall success of nursing graduates. Everything a nurse graduate needs to harness the benefits of mentorship:.: A personal mentor action plan, with advice on creating a personalized plan; Ten tips on raisin