Mentoring in Nursing and Healthcare (eBook)

Supporting Career and Personal Development

Helen M. Woolnough, Sandra L. Fielden (Autoren)

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2016
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-86374-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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 tool
• Focuses on the individual benefits of being a mentee and mentor and how this can aid professional development
• Both theoretical and practical material is presented
• Features case studies throughout book
• Supports nurses to develop their careers
• It is sector specific but has transferability across disciplines
• A summary chapter draws together common threads or theoretical perspectives. The book concludes with strategies for future research and progress

Helen M. Woolnough is Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Leeds Beckett University, UK.

Sandra L. Fielden is Senior Lecturer in Organisational Psychology, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, U.K

Inhalt

Cover 1
Title Page 5
Copyright 6
Contents 7
Notes on Author 11
Introduction 13
Chapter 1 Gendered Career Development within Nursing and Healthcare 19
Education 19
The Labour Market 20
Gendered Careers 22
The Person-centred Approach 24
The Organisational Structure Perspective 26
Gender Differences in Career Development and the Meaning of Success 28
Gender Differences in the Career Progression of Nurses and Healthcare Professionals 29
Summary 31
References 32
Chapter 2 Mentoring as a Career Development Tool 41
Defining Mentoring 41
Functions of Mentoring 43
Mentoring Phases 44
Box 2.1 Kram’s stages of the mentoring. 45
Box 2.2 Clutterbuck’s stages of the mentoring relationship. 45
Competencies of Mentors and Mentees 46
Box 2.3 Capabilities of effective mentors. 48
Informal vs Formal Mentoring 48
Alternative Forms of Mentoring 50
Does Mentoring Really Work? 52
Box 2.4 Benefits of mentoring for mentees. 53
Box 2.5 Benefits of mentoring for mentors. 53
Drawbacks to Mentoring 54
Summary 56
Box 2.6 American Psychological Association ethical guidelines. 57
References 57
Chapter 3 Diversity in Mentoring: Gender, Race and Ethnicity 63
The Case for Diversity 63
Diversity in the NHS 65
Gender and Mentoring 66
Barriers for Women to Acquiring a Mentor 66
Cross-gender Mentoring Relationships 68
The Role of Gender in Formal and Informal Mentoring Relationships 70
The Role of Race and Ethnicity in Mentoring Relationships 71
The Impact of Mentoring Relationships for White and BAME Women 73
Summary 75
References 76
Chapter 4 Mentoring in Nursing and Healthcare 81
Culture of Nursing 81
Perceptions of Nursing 82
Mentoring in the NHS 84
Mentoring in Nurse Education 86
Box 4.1 Mentors are responsible and accountable for: 87
Box 4.2 Preceptors should: 88
The Value of Mentoring Throughout a Developing Career 87
Mentoring Across the NHS 91
Summary 93
References 93
Chapter 5 Designing and Implementing a Formal Mentoring Programme 99
Definition of Mentoring Applied to the Challenging Perceptions Programme 100
Objectives of the Programme 101
Recruitment of NHS Mental Health Trusts 102
Recruitment of Participants and Control Group 105
Recruitment of Mentors 106
The Matching Process (Mentees’ Selection of Mentors) 107
The Seven Main Elements of the Challenging Perceptions Programme 107
Element 1: A three-day, residential career development and mentoring training course for female mentee participants 108
Element 2: One-day gender awareness and mentoring programme for mentee participants and their chosen mentors 111
Element 3: The Mentoring Relationship 111
Element 4: Action learning sets 112
Element 5: Work shadowing 113
Element 6: Assessment and evaluation 113
Element 7: Final networking event 114
Summary 114
References 115
Chapter 6 Evaluating Formal Mentoring Relationships 119
Evaluation in Practice 119
Data Collection 122
Qualitative Data Collection 123
Mentees and Control Group 123
Mentors 126
Quantitative Data Collection 128
Mentees and the Control Group 128
Mentors 131
Ethical Considerations 131
Data Analysis 133
Semi-structured Interview Analysis 133
Questionnaire Analysis 134
Summary 135
References 136
Chapter 7 Does Mentoring Work? The Realities of Mentoring from the Perspective of Both Mentee and Mentor 141
Career Development Outcomes 141
Breaking the Glass Ceiling 144
Personal Development Outcomes 147
The Mentoring Relationship 149
Benefits for Mentors 153
Summary 157
References 158
Chapter 8 The Challenging Perceptions Programme and the Long-term Benefits of Mentoring 163
Formal Mentoring Programmes 163
Mentee Case Studies 164
Box 8.1 Anna 166
Box 8.2 Zoe 166
Box 8.3 Laila 167
Box 8.4 Ruth 167
Box 8.5 Mandy 168
Box 8.6 Frieda 168
Box 8.7 Hannah 169
The Challenging Perceptions Programme 166
Key Lessons 170
Evaluation Limitations 172
Attrition 172
Sample Size 174
Contextual Factors 174
Focus on Individual Perceptions 174
Future Programme Development 175
Summary 176
References 178
Afterword 183
Index 187
EULA 193

Rezensionen

"This is a comprehensive resource for those wishing to develop a mentor program. The book also builds on the current understanding of the literature surrounding mentoring programs while identifying the gaps in current knowledge" Doody's, Oct 2017

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.11.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Pflegemanagement / Qualität / Recht
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Personalwesen
• Schlagworte: Ausbildung u. Perspektiven i. d. Krankenpflege • Business & Management • Krankenpflege • Leitungstätigkeit u. Management i. d. Krankenpflege • Leitungstätigkeit u. Management i. d. Krankenpflege • Mentoring career mentor supervision nursing healthcare profession practitioners workforce gender diversity • nursing • Nursing Education & Professional Development • Nursing Management & Leadership • Training & Human Resource Development / Coaching & Mentoring • Training u. Personalentwicklung / Coaching, Mentoring • Wirtschaft u. Management
• ISBN-10: 1-118-86374-7 / 1118863747
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-86374-9 / 9781118863749