title: Boosting your career with a mentor.
abstract: Mentoring is the last topic in a series of six articles designed to help orthopaedic nurses adjust career goals and strengthen their professional and personal achievements. Becoming a protege to an experienced and successful person can be the linchpin that helps bring together the other elements-resume writing, job interviews, critical thinking, networking, and going back to school-you need to achieve your full potential. This article describes what to look for and expect from a mentor, how-to be a good protege, and the mentor-protege relationship. The author uses her personal experience as a mentor and protege to describe the risks and rewards of this influential relationship.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing at Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, Newark, USA.
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Norman
mesh_terms: D002322:Career Mobility; D006801:Humans; D008611:Mentors; D016530:Orthopedic Nursing