Mentoring in Nursing: A Dynamic and Collaborative Process

2007 AJN Book of the Year Winner! Designated a Doody's Core Title!Mentoring in Nursing will help inspire a more cohesive, flexible, and empowered nursing force, whether in academia, the hospital unit, or health care facility. Featuring: Definitions and components of the mentoring process Models and strategies: classic, multiple, and peer mentoring; precepting, coaching, or shadowing models Mentor and mentee perspectives Best practices in nurse mentoring, including multicultural competency Mentoring evaluation tools "It is incumbent then on all of us in the helping professions to be cognizant of the need for continued support and guidance of the elders, but the elders must also listen and learn from the young, and the young must help each other if the profession's covenant with the public is to be kept."--From the Foreword by Grayce Sills, PhD, RN

About the Author

Sheila C. Grossman, Ph.D, APRN-BC, received her baccalaureate and doctoral degrees from the University of Connecticut, her master's degree from the University of Massachusetts in bio-physiological nursing with a clinical nurse specialty in respiratory nursing, and her post-master's certificate as a family nurse practitioner from Fairfield University. Dr. Grossman has completed the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Genetics Fellowship and the AACN Leadership Fellowship. She has practiced as a staff and charge nurse on a variety of medical-surgical and critical care units, and been a Critical Care Instructor at Hartford Hospital and St. Francis Hospital & Medical Center in Hartford, CT. She has taught nursing at the University of Connecticut, currently is a Professor and Specialty Director of the Family Nurse Practitioner Program at Fairfield University, and affiliates clinically with Yale New Haven Hospital. She works as a nurse practitioner weekly at Trinity College Health Center.

Dr. Grossman has presented and written multiple national and regional presentations and publications in the areas of her research on leadership, evidence based practice, pathophysiology, geriatrics, primary and critical care patient outcome studies, and nursing education. She is a past member of the Connecticut State Board of Nursing, and a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Mu Chi Chapter, American Critical Care Nurses Association, the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculty, and the American Nurses Association.