Call for Nursing Faculty Mentors in North Carolina

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NEEDED EXPERIENCED FACULTY for a fun and rewarding experience to provide a supportive and rewarding environment for new faculty.

Overview: Mentoring is needed to help new clinical faculty feel appreciated as the underpinning of basic education. The subcommittee on Mentoring of the Commission on Education for North Carolina Nurses Association is soliciting experienced faculty to serve as mentors for new faculty for the upcoming September 2006 - May 2007 academic year. Each experienced faculty will mentor a new faculty member from a similar program who is teaching similar content (wherever possible). After an initial face-to-face meeting, contact can be made via telephone or e-mail.

The overall purpose of this mentoring project is to provide information about how to be a nursing faculty member and to provide support for transitioning into the new role.

Mentor qualifications we are seeking:

Someone who wants to be a mentor

2-5 years experience as nursing faculty

Teaching a nursing course during September 2006- May 2007

Demonstrates knowledge, skills and attitudes that others want to emulate

Is willing to serve as a mentor for 1 academic year

Will make themselves available for one fall workshop to learn about mentoring and to meet their protégé

Protégé qualifications we are seeking:

Someone who wants to be a protégé

Is willing to serve as a protégé for 1 academic year

Has taught less than 2 years

Will make themselves available for one fall workshop to learn about mentoring and to meet their mentor

Expectations of contacts:

"Meets" during the first 3-4 weeks every week; after that monthly. (Meetings can be e-mail or phone based.)

Keeps a list of things to ask/tell.

Keeps a log of contacts.

Participates in evaluation of project.

For more information on this important project or desire to become a mentor, contact:

Diana K. Bond, MS, RN, BC

Director, Program Services, Wake AHEC

3024 New Bern Ave., Suite G03

Raleigh, NC 27610-1255

919-350-5920

http://www.wakeahec.org

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