Journal of Nursing & Care

Polly M McArthur

Publications

• Review Article
  Transforming Bedside Nursing Care through Practice-Academic Co-Mentoring Relationships
  Author(s): Sandra J Mixer, Renee C Burk, Rebecca Davidson, Polly M McArthur, Cindy Abraham, Krystle Silva and Debra SharpSandra J Mixer, Renee C Burk, Rebecca Davidson, Polly M McArthur, Cindy Abraham, Krystle Silva and Debra Sharp
  
  This article reports how nursing staff, nurse managers, faculty, and graduate students from a regional children’s hospital and a research-intensive public university came together to solve a clinical challenge. The challenge was addressed when these practice and academic professionals collaborated and used nursing theory to educate staff nurses and plan a research project. The most significant results from this partnership have been the deep, reciprocal co-mentoring relationships that have formed among participants and the impressive results they have produced. Not finding a fitting description in the literature for the co-mentoring relationships formed through this partnership, the co-mentees formulated their own definition: a trusting, collaborative, and reciprocal teaching/learning relationship among interprofessional colleagues working together with shared power to produce q.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168.1000108

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