Background: 

Mentoring is a process in which a more skilled or experienced person builds a supportive relationship with a less experienced person to promote the latter's professional development. The National Association of Neonatal Nurse Practitioners (NANNP) supports the establishment of formalized mentoring programs for neonatal nurse practitioners (NNPs) and published a mentoring toolkit in 2017. Completing suggested activities outlined in the toolkit promotes the incorporation of evidence-based practice into the NNP professional role.

Purpose: 

This quality improvement project's purpose was to measure utilization and meaningfulness of NANNP mentoring toolkit activities.

Methods: 

A convenience sample of 21 nurse practitioners was paired in 2 mentoring cohorts. Dyads were encouraged to meet monthly to complete NANNP mentoring toolkit activities in the context of a formalized mentoring program. Monthly data were collected to evaluate use and meaningfulness of the toolkit activities. Quantitative data included frequency and length of mentoring meetings, activities completed, and ratings of meaningfulness on a Likert-type scale.

Results: 

Six of the 9 (67%) NANNP mentoring activities completed by the 2 cohorts were rated as “meaningful” or “very meaningful” by participants.

Implications for Practice and Research: 

Activities from the NANNP mentoring toolkit provide structure to mentoring relationship development. Recognizing the challenge to recruit and retain NNPs, organizations are encouraged to explore creative solutions to develop and support formalized mentoring programs. Further research is warranted to validate use of NANNP toolkit activities in the establishment and evaluation of a formalized mentoring program in various neonatal intensive care unit settings.

中文翻译：

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全国新生儿护士执业协会辅导工具包活动的利用和意义

背景： 

指导是一个过程，在这个过程中，技能较高或经验丰富的人与经验较少的人建立支持关系，以促进后者的专业发展。全国新生儿执业护士协会 (NANNP) 支持为新生儿执业护士 (NNP) 建立正式的指导计划，并于 2017 年发布了指导工具包。完成工具包中概述的建议活动可促进将循证实践纳入 NNP专业角色。

目的： 

这个质量改进项目的目的是衡量 NANNP 指导工具包活动的利用率和意义。

方法： 

21 名执业护士的便利样本被配对到 2 个指导队列中。Dyads 被鼓励每月开会，以在正式指导计划的背景下完成 NANNP 指导工具包活动。每月收集数据以评估工具包活动的使用情况和意义。定量数据包括指导会议的频率和时长、完成的活动以及李克特量表的意义评级。

结果： 

2 个队列完成的 9 项 NANNP 指导活动中有 6 项 (67%) 被参与者评为“有意义”或“非常有意义”。

对实践和研究的启示： 

NANNP 指导工具包中的活动为指导关系发展提供了结构。认识到招募和留住 NNP 的挑战，鼓励组织探索创造性的解决方案来开发和支持正式的指导计划。需要进一步研究以验证 NANNP 工具包活动在各种新生儿重症监护病房设置中建立和评估正式指导计划的使用。