PARTNERS IN NURSING:<i>A Mentoring Initiative to Enhance Nurse Retention</i>
Nursing Education PerspectivesPublished 1 August 2011
S. Cottingham, Mary C. DiBartolo, Susan Battistoni, Tina P. Brown
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A community-based mentoring program, Partners in Nursing (PIN), was developed as a collaborative effort to address the nursing workforce shortage and was deemed effective.
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This article describes a community-based mentoring program, Partners in Nursing (PIN), which was developed as a collaborative effort to address the nursing workforce shortage.While the primary goal was to increase retention rates of new nurse graduates, the program also produced secondary benefits of professional development and outreach opportunities. Furthermore, through the creation of PIN, local resources were identified to support new graduates and cultivate leadership potential. While the program was deemed effective, continued research is needed to quantify the benefits of such programs so that similar initiatives can be successfully replicated.
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