Stanford Nursing Mentorship Program
A PART OF NURSING EXCELLENCE
The Nurse Mentorship Program at Stanford Health Care (SHC) was developed by Nurse Managers in 2004. In 2018, the program relaunched as an interactive web-based platform. The program was designed to help nurses of all levels of the organization succeed in reaching their own individualized goals in their nursing careers. The SHC Nursing Mentorship Program acknowledges that aligning nurses’ goals with mentors that have already achieved those goals will streamline the nurses’ efforts to reaching a higher satisfaction with their professional lives.
Based on success and growing demand, the mentorship program evolved beyond mentoring nurses new to Stanford Health Care and now provides a customized mentorship pairing to each nurse’s individualized career goals. Evaluation of the program by mentees has indicated a high level of satisfaction with the program and a high rate of goal achievement from their mentoring relationships.
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The goals of the program are to promote a culture of mentorship, professional development, teamwork, and succession planning for the future of SHC while retaining the high-quality nurses and thereby decreasing costs associated with recruitment and orientation.
Program Objectives
- Develop supportive and encouraging relationships
- Guide nurses in their professional, personal, and interpersonal growth
- Promote mutuality and sharing based on the needs of colleagues
- Communicate information concerning expectations, learning opportunities and stressors
- Promotes understanding factors that help nurses integrate theory into practice
- Act as a resource to facilitate personal and professional developments of others
- Promote an understanding of maintaining professional boundaries that support inter-professional care
- Socialization
Mentor Criteria and Selection
A mentor is a seasoned professional who has advanced job-related experience, accomplishments the mentee is seeking to achieve, knowledge of the organization, a positive attitude, and excellent communication skills. The selection process includes evaluating the potential mentor's ability to meet the following expectations:
- Support the mission and values of the Stanford Health Care (SHC).
- Participate in achieving SHC, Nursing, and Unit Goals.
- Serve as a role model using Role-Based Practice.
- Act as a resource and facilitating the SHC Nursing Professional Practice Model.
- Demonstrate Clinical competency.
- Provide constructive feedback.
- Demonstrate professionalism.
- Demonstrate positive communication, patience, tact in interactions,
- Evidence of continuing education in the areas of communication, conflict management, teaching/learning, coaching, goal setting, and/or giving feedback.