Overtures - 1983

Contributers include: Isabelle Wasilewski, Gerald Majer, Cynthia Poe, Larry Swieca, Kelly O\u27Mahoney, Michael Davidson, Susan Mitchell, Sherry Payne, Enid Levenger Powell, Anne Siegel, Sara Esgate, Albert DeGenova, Pamela Miller, William T. Lawlor, Alice Ryerson, Jim Elledge, Gertrude Rubin, Gary Byron, Jeanette L. Fleming, Eleanor Gordon, Jacqueline Disler, John Dickson, Mary Trimble, Isabelle Wasilewski, Carlos Lopez, Daryl Jensen, Rosemary Strabrawa, Timothy Bell, Marta Jankowski, Sherry Payne, Kelly O\u27Mahoneyhttps://neiudc.neiu.edu/overtures/1006/thumbnail.jp

Overtures - 1982

Contributers include: Kelly O\u27Mahoney, Cynthia Poe, Vesle Fenstermaker, William T. Lawlor, J.M. Marshall, Jim Elledge, Jeanette Fleming, Kenneth Schulze,https://neiudc.neiu.edu/overtures/1005/thumbnail.jp

Overtures - 1981

Contributers include: J.M. Marshall, Andrew Byrne, Anne Haskins, Gertrude Rubin, A. Bernard Stein, Marc Davidson, Jill Johnson, Kelly O\u27Mahoney, Lynda Clemmer, Nancy Haglerhttps://neiudc.neiu.edu/overtures/1004/thumbnail.jp

Overtures - 1981

Contributers include: Donald Edwards, Debbi Grandfield, Peter Wesley, Don Hoffman, Brian Dibble, John Dolis, Edward Smallfield, Lisa Mueller, A. Bernard Stein, William Hunt, Kelly O\u27Mahoneyhttps://neiudc.neiu.edu/overtures/1003/thumbnail.jp

Overtures - 1984

Contributers include: Kelly O\u27Mahoney, Edward Smallfield, Barry Nelson, Bob Caskey, Elizabeth Marino, Virginia Denise, R. Taylor, Ingrid Wendt, Lorri Jackson, Adrian Saylor, Gary Byron, Albert DeGenova, Kallas Bonnivier, Norbert Marszalek,https://neiudc.neiu.edu/overtures/1007/thumbnail.jp

Empowering and Retaining New Graduate Nurses Through a Structured Mentoring Program

The purpose of this project is to improve the orientation experience of the new graduate nurse at a metropolitan Minnesota hospital through the development of a structured mentoring program. The transition from student nurse to professional nurse is stressful for new graduate nurses. Stress combined with increased technology and patient acuity in the acute care setting has led to many new graduate nurses leaving the profession, contributing to the anticipated nursing shortage. Literature on new graduate nurse orientation, the nursing shortage, mentoring, and generational differences were incorporated in the development of the structured mentoring program. The importance of nursing leadership engagement and support from a consistent mentor are stressed. Imogene King\u27s theory of Goal Attainment provides support for the structured mentoring program to focus on relationship building, engaging the new graduate nurses in the orientation process, and empowering the new nurse through encouragement and praise for accomplishments