- Title
- More than vision imagination as an elemental characteristic of being a nurse leader-mentor
- Creator
- McCloughen, Andrew; O'Brien, Louise; Jackson, Debra
- Relation
- Advances in Nursing Science Vol. 33, Issue 4, p. 285-296
- Relation
- http://ovidsp.tx.ovid.com/sp-3.5.1a/ovidweb.cgi?&S=LAOAFPPGHIDDHFNCNCALFBIBHCIAAA00&Link+Set=S.sh.55.56.59.64|3|sl_10
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- Mentoring relationships are dynamic alliances that can be used as a supportive mechanism for growing nurse leaders and promoting the future of the nursing profession. This article explores imagination as one of the central meanings of being a mentor for nursing leadership. Findings from a hermeneutic-phenomenological study concerned with Australian nurse leaders' experiences and understandings of mentorship for leadership revealed that imagination was a key characteristic of being a nurse leader-mentor. Imagination that moved beyond fantasy to closely connect with reason was essential for nurse leader-mentors to recognize and activate the myriad possibilities available to mentees and the nursing profession more broadly.
- Subject
- imagination; leaders; mentors; nurses
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/930134
- Identifier
- uon:10772
- Identifier
- ISSN:0161-9268
- Language
- eng
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