klhigg2

I am a Staff Development Specialist at a Children's Hospital in Kentucky. I have worked in the job for about a year and before that I worked as a pediatric Acute care nurse on an Infant/Toddler unit. I work many all of the new graduates to the children's hospital and the one thing I love the most is the one year program we have that assist the new graduate to transition from the role of a student nurse to one of a professional nurse. I look forward to the reading many of the discussion on the site.

Mentoring is something that we don't often see in nursing, especailly in the hospital I currently working in. Many of my new graduate nurses are looking for some type of "mentor" for when they finish with their orientation. There is a group of nurses working on this project for the units and are very interested to hear what other hospitals may have. What type of mentoring programs, formal, informal or if any, do you have? Thanks for any replies that you may send