Contents -- Contributors -- Prologue and Message to the Reader -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: The Mentor Connection -- 1. Mentorship and Nursing -- 2. Mentoring for Career and Self-Development -- Mentor Remembered -- Mentoring for Succession -- Reflections on Mentoring and Networks -- 3. Women Mentoring Women: Nurse to Nurse -- My Story about Women's and Nurses' Mentor Relationships -- Part II: Perspectives on Mentorship -- 4. Living the Mentor Connection: Personal Reflections and Stories -- Mentoring: A Song of Power -- Interview of a Teacher-Mentor and Student-Protégé -- Mentorship: A Personal Perspective -- On Mentoring: A Skeptic's View -- A Memorable Mentorship -- Tapping into Uncommon Wisdom through Mentorship -- A Leader's Mentors -- Mentoring: An Interactive Process -- Full Circle: Peer Mentorship -- The Privilege and Responsibility of Mentoring -- Mentoring and Nursing's Relational Capacities -- Mentoring Behaviors versus Mentoring Relationship: A Dissenter's Perspective -- Part III: The Process of Mentorship -- 5. Negotiating the Mentor Relationship -- The "Unintentional" Mentor -- Mentorship in a Magnet Nursing Department -- Part IV: Contexts for Mentoring -- 6. Mentoring in the Academic Setting -- Mentoring a Student-Growing a Leader -- The Mentor Connection for Student Leaders -- Mentoring Graduate Nursing Students in Home Health Nursing -- Group as Mentor: Creating Academic Communities of Scholarly Caring -- My Mentor -- My Role as Mentor -- The Mentor Program -- Caring for Each Other: The Student and Alumni Mentor Connection -- A Model for Mentoring Junior Nursing Faculty -- Reflections of Mentors: Nurse Leaders in Academe -- 7. Mentoring in the Practice Setting -- The Head Nurse, Mentorship, Leadership, and Change -- 8. Mentoring for Scholarship and Research Development -- Mentors and Advances in Nursing Science.

A Mentoring Circle: Facilitating Nursing Research with Staff Nurses -- 9. Group and Collective Mentorship -- Community and Health Professional Mentor Relationships -- The Good Ol' Girls and Collective Mentoring -- Executive Development and Mentorship -- Creating a Legacy of Leadership in the South -- Part V: Expanding the Mentor Connection -- 10. Global and Cross-Cultural Mentoring: Voices from the Field -- Mentoring for International Educational Program Development -- Global Mentoring: A Collaborative Process -- The Hunter-Shanghai Project: An International Cross-Cultural Experience in Research Mentorship -- The New Zealand Midwifery Mentor Partnership -- The Philippine Nurses' Network -- Mentoring Experiences at the Academy for Nursing Studies in India -- A Study of Mentoring and Career Development of Directors of Nursing in South Australia -- Mentorship in Italy -- A Russian-American Tale of Mentoring -- Epilogue -- References and Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.