title: Mentoring--a staff retention tool.
abstract: Staff retention presents a common challenge for hospitals nationwide. Mentorship programs have been explored as one method of creating environments that promote staff retention. Successful achievement of nurse competencies identified in the Synergy Model for Patient Care can best be achieved in an environment that encourages and facilitates mentoring. Mentoring relationships in critical care provide the ongoing interactions, coaching, teaching, and role modeling to facilitate nurses' progression along this continuum. Mentoring relationships offer support and professional development for nurses at all levels within an organization as well as an optimistic outlook for the nursing profession.
authors.affiliation: Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA 17033, USA. mkanaskie@psu.edu
authors.forename: Mary Louise
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Kanaskie
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003422:Critical Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D003479:Curriculum; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006272:Health Facility Environment / Q000458:organization & administration; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D016901:Intergenerational Relations; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008611:Mentors / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology*; D017145:Models, Educational; D016294:Models, Nursing; D024802:Nurse's Role / Q000523:psychology; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education* / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010563:Personnel Turnover / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011231:Preceptorship / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012944:Social Support