BACCALAUREATE NURSING FACULTY PERCEPTIONS OF THE MENTORING ACTIVITY OF IMMEDIATE SUPERVISORS.
Contributors: University of Mississippi.
Published: 1990
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: Education, Higher.; Health Sciences, Nursing.; Women's Studies.
Description: Mentoring has impacted on business, higher education, and nursing during the past two decades. This national study surveyed three hundred fifty-five full-time baccalaureate nursing faculty members to determine the correlation, if any, of the faculty's teaching experience, the length of the faculty/supervisor relationship, and the supervisor's length of time in the role in regard to the faculty members' perceptions of the mentoring roles utilized by immediate supervisors.

Multiple regression indicated there was a significant relationship between the length of the faculty's teaching experience for eight of the ten mentor roles and the length of the faculty/supervisor relationship for nine of the ten mentor roles. There was no significant relationship for the supervisor's length of time in the role for any of the mentor roles. The three top mentor roles utilized by supervisors included demonstration of trust, teaching the job, and sponsoring the faculty member. The bottom three roles were friendship, teaching politics, and counseling.

The majority of faculty perceived the supervisor as a partial (51 percent) or full (15 percent) mentor. The supervisor had a high degree of influence on career and personal development (55 and 43 percent). The overall relationship with the supervisor was positive (62 percent). Nursing faculty reported a high level of career satisfaction (71 percent).

Mentoring fosters career socialization, strengthens collegial relationships, and increases political awareness of institutional and educational goals. Nursing as a profession must be aware of what mentoring is. From this consciousness, mentor relationships will then evolve.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-06, Section: A, page: 1927.

Thesis (PH.D.)--THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI, 1990.

School code: 0131.