title: Mentoring. Perceptions of the process and its significance.
abstract: My recommendations are to learn about the mentoring process, prepare for the role, and take advantage of the opportunity to mentor someone, or many people, throughout your professional lifetime. In the process, you will learn about your cognitive, affective, and behavioral competencies and gifts. Share them. Join me and other mentors in knowing that you have opened doors and contributed in more than the usual ways to both well and ill people, to both present and future leaders in nursing or other disciplines, in whatever role, and to society in general. Deepen your generativity.
authors.affiliation: St. Louis University School of Nursing, 3525 Caroline Mall, St. Louis, MO 63104, USA.
authors.forename: Ruth Beckmann
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Murray
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D008611:Mentors; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education*