title: Understanding Mentorship in a Research Training Program for Point-of-Care Clinicians.
abstract: Evidence-based practice (EBP) is essential to high-quality patient care and can contribute to healthcare cost savings, yet nurses and other clinicians at the point of care report barriers to engagement with research and translating it to the clinical setting. Mentorship has been shown to improve nurses' understanding and implementation of EBP. In this article, we describe a mentorship model in a successful program to support point-of-care nurses in conducting small-scale research projects, many of which have led to practice changes and/or cost savings.
authors.affiliation: Author Affiliations: Research Leader Professional Practice (Ms Black), Clinical Nurse Specialist (Dr Mackay), Director Professional Practice (Ms Garossino), Providence Health Care; Associate Professor (Drs Bungay and Balneaves), Clinical Associate Professor (Dr Mackay), School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
authors.forename: Agnes T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Black
authors.forename: Vicky
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bungay
authors.forename: Martha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mackay
authors.forename: Lynda G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Balneaves
authors.forename: Candy
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Garossino
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice; D008611:Mentors; D016294:Models, Nursing; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems