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Sunday, 17 November 2013: 2:45 PM
Learning Objective 1: Identify issues affecting retention of nurse educators in today's academic culture.
Learning Objective 2: Apply the McDowell-Williams Caring Leadership Model as the theoretical basis for structuring a new faculty mentorship program.
Nursing educators have been accused of cultivating a work environment that, “Eats their young.” The result is a national shortage of nurse faculty willing to enter the challenging world of academia, and those that do are not easily retained. Many nursing schools have created mentorship programs for novice faculty to address this problem. Unfortunately, there are few trained mentors and limited theoretical basis for developing sound mentorship practices that can be tested for best practice methodology. The purpose of this project was to identify a theory- based approach to mentorship that would not only benefit the career and leadership path of the new faculty mentees, but would also break the pattern of mistrust, hostile competition, and survival of the fittest perspective often viewed as necessary to reach the bar of success in the harsh culture of academia. During a Sigma Theta Tau Nurse Faculty Leadership Academy experience as a faculty leadership mentor, the McDowell-Williams Caring Leadership Model (2011) that was previously formed by theorists who brought together the caring theory of Watson (2008) and the leadership theory of Kouzes and Posner (2007), was chosen to make this project’s mentoring strategies systematic and theory-based. In this model, the AGAPE core values of: “Always lead with kindness, compassion, and equality; Generate hope and faith through cocreation; Actively innovate with insight, reflection, and wisdom; Purposely create protected space founded upon mutual respect and caring; Embody an environment of caring helping-trusting for self and others; were integrated into practical application for improving the mentor-mentee relationship and its outcomes. Illustrations of this model’s successful application will be shared and discussed as opportunity is provided for a theoretical model of nursing to be expanded to the care of nurse leaders in the educational practice setting.
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