Nurses Nurturing Nurses

Outcomes and Lessons Learned

Grindel, Cecelia Gatson
Hagerstrom, Glenn

Cecelia Gatson Grindel, PhD, RN, CMSRN, FAAN, is Associate Director for Graduate Nursing Programs, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.
Glenn Hagerstrom, MSN, APRN, BC, is Assistant Professor, Orvis School of Nursing, University of Nevada, Reno, NV.

Acknowledgments: The authors acknowledge the Board of Directors of the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses and former AMSN Presidents Kathy Reeves and Marlene Roman for their vision for and support of the Nurses Nurturing Nurses project. They would like to thank Erick Stearns Rollo and Jennifer Burtner for their assistance in data management and analysis.

MEDSURG Nursing 18(3):p 194, May-June 2009.

Retention of new graduate nurses is a challenge for acute care agencies. The Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses sponsored a hospital-based formal mentorship program, Nurses Nurturing Nurses, for interested agencies. The outcomes and lessons learned from this project are presented.