title: Role play: mentoring, membership in professional organizations, and the pursuit of excellence in nursing.
abstract: It is our professional responsibility to encourage membership in nursing organizations. Membership helps nurses make intelligent, well-informed decisions about health care and our profession. It also enhances our credibility and helps validate nursing as a profession. Plato said, "Those having torches will pass them on to others." As nurses, educators, preceptors, advocates and mentors, we carry the fire.
authors.affiliation: Emergency Department, The Children's Hospital, Denver, CO, USA. haley-andrews.stephanie@tchden.org
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Haley-Andrews
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008611:Mentors; D009729:Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012941:Social Responsibility; D012956:Societies, Nursing; D014481:United States