The Power of Mentoring Clinical Nurses: A Strategy to Advance Nursing Research

Abstract

Mentorship is a reciprocal relationship geared toward developing inexperienced individuals' professional competencies. This hospital-based, mentorship account presents case studies illustrating mentorship examples of engagement in the research process and shares anecdotes of nurses' mastery of nursing research studies. Evidence and mentorship principles are oriented in the context of caritas processes. The mentorship affiliation benefits mentees' progress in employing research methods, building a stronger nursing research program, and advancing a healthcare system's nursing research agenda. It highlights mentees' professional journeys and development as a local and regional research committee chair, research study coinvestigator, principal investigator, and manuscript author.