Abstract

The National League for Nursing (NLN) endorses mentoring throughout the nursing faculty career trajectory as the method to recruit nurses into academia and improve retention of nursing faculty within the academy (NLN, 2006). One way mentoring assists faculty is by easing socialization to the culture of the employing institution and decreasing faculty stress (Lewallen, Crane, Letvak, Jones, & Hu, 2003). Mentoring can also be a facilitating factor of an individual's psychological empowerment. Academia is an environment able to foster psychological empowerment, a state in which faculty may be self-directed, highly productive, confident, and find a meaningful connection to their work (Spreitzer, 1995a).

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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 3498175; ProQuest document ID: 926193794. The author still retains copyright.

Author Details

Catherine Chung, PhD, RN, CNE, CCM, AHN-BC

Sigma Membership

Non-member

Type

Dissertation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Cross-Sectional

Research Approach

Quantitative Research

Keywords:

Nursing Faculty, Stress, Mentoring Relationship, Psychological Factors

Advisor

Susan Kowalski

Second Advisor

Michele Clark

Third Advisor

Carolyn Yucha

Fourth Advisor

Vicki Rosser

Degree

PhD

Degree Grantor

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Degree Year

2011

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Review Type

None: Degree-based Submission

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2023-11-27

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