title: Mentoring practices benefiting pediatric nurses.
abstract: Previous studies examining predictors of pediatric nurse protégé mentoring benefits demonstrated that protégé perception of quality was the single best predictor of mentoring benefits. The ability to identify the mentoring practices that predict specific benefits for individual nurses provides a better understanding of how mentoring relationships can be leveraged within health care organizations promoting mutual mentoring benefits. This descriptive correlational, non-experimental study of nurses at a northeast Ohio, Magnet® recognized, free-standing pediatric hospital advances nursing science by demonstrating how mentoring practices benefit pediatric nurse protégés.
authors.affiliation: Akron Children's Hospital, One Perkins Square, Akron, OH. Electronic address: mweese@chmca.org.
authors.forename: Meghan M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Weese
authors.affiliation: Nurse Builders, Suite #350, Philadelphia, PA.
authors.forename: Louise D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Jakubik
authors.affiliation: Akron Children's Hospital, One Perkins Square, Akron, OH.
authors.forename: Aris B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Eliades
authors.affiliation: Akron Children's Hospital, One Perkins Square, Akron, OH.
authors.forename: Jennifer J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Huth
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008611:Mentors; D008875:Middle Aged; D015399:Nursing Research; D009820:Ohio; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000193:education*; D012044:Regression Analysis; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: Mentoring; Nursing; Research