title: Establishing a Nurse Mentor Program to Improve Nurse Satisfaction and Intent to Stay.
abstract: Mentoring is an intervention to foster development and socialization of new registered nurses to an organization or unit. A nurse mentor program was developed and implemented with the purpose to improve new registered nurse satisfaction and intent to stay. A pre- and postintervention design was used in a rural emergency department to evaluate nurse job satisfaction and intent to stay in the job. Intent to stay in the job mean scores increased, and the registered nurse participants reported program satisfaction through verbal and written feedback.
authors.affiliation: Sara Jane Jones, DNP, RN, PLNC, CNE, is Associate Professor, Madisonville Community College, Kentucky.
authors.forename: Sara Jane
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D004506:Education, Nursing; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006780:Hospitals, Rural; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D033182:Intention; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008611:Mentors / Q000523:psychology*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D010558:Personnel Loyalty; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires