title: Mentor/mentee relationship with the focus on meeting promotion/tenure guidelines.
abstract: Mentoring, an important concept in career development, is applied primarily in the literature to undergraduate students whereby faculty mentor students. This article discusses the development of a mentoring relationship in a complex university environment, factors that inhibit the development of a mentoring relationship, how to overcome these inhibitors and how attitudes can influence the mentoring relationship. Lastly, the development of a personal mentoring relationship is shared.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, College of Health Sciences, Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois, USA. DJ-Jones@csu.edu
authors.forename: D P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tucker-Allen
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002322:Career Mobility; D003376:Counseling / Q000458:organization & administration; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D006040:Goals; D017408:Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007587:Job Description; D008611:Mentors / Q000523:psychology*; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000523:psychology; D010380:Peer Review; D010934:Planning Techniques; D011361:Professional Competence / Q000592:standards; D012380:Role; D012944:Social Support; D013192:Staff Development / Q000458:organization & administration; D017748:Time Management