Hale Regina
JoAnne Gay Dishman School of Nursing, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX.
Nurs Forum. 2018 Apr 25. doi: 10.1111/nuf.12259.
This paper appraises the conceptual development of mentoring in nursing and highlights the need for further research on mentoring that focuses on conceptual clarification and theoretical discovery. Despite an abundance of published articles on mentoring, a paucity of research studies on nurse-to-nurse mentoring exists. Nursing literature abounds with descriptive terminology about mentoring rather than explanatory research. Descriptive terminology does little to develop the concept of mentoring, leaving one to ponder how to implement mentoring relationships in nursing. Published research has primarily focused on two broad categories: mentor characteristics and mentoring relationship outcomes. Although numerous scholars have asserted the need to clearly conceptualize mentoring, limited research focus has contributed to an ambiguous understanding of mentoring. Research that clarifies mentoring as a concept and provides a theoretical explanation of the mentoring relationship will fill a long-standing gap in the literature.
本文评估了护理领域中指导的概念发展，并强调了对指导进行进一步研究的必要性，该研究应侧重于概念澄清和理论发现。尽管有大量关于指导的已发表文章，但护士对护士指导的研究却很少。护理文献中充斥着关于指导的描述性术语，而非解释性研究。描述性术语对发展指导概念作用不大，让人不禁思考如何在护理中实施指导关系。已发表的研究主要集中在两大类：指导者特征和指导关系结果。尽管众多学者主张需要清晰地界定指导的概念，但有限的研究重点导致了对指导的理解模糊不清。将指导作为一个概念进行澄清并对指导关系提供理论解释的研究将填补文献中长期存在的空白。
