Nurse Mentoring: A Scoping Review.

Introduction: Mentoring programs minimize stress and anxiety in recent graduates and in newly recruited nurses, guiding their careers and enabling them to retain their skills and correctly care for patients. The objective of this scoping review is to explore and summarize the existing literature on mentoring models and programs in the clinical nursing context.

Methods: The databases searched include PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, Epistemonikos, Cuiden, Scielo, MEDES, OpenGrey, Trove and MedNar.

Acquisition of Competencies of Nurses: Improving the Performance of the Healthcare System.

Perspectives of the core competencies of nurses are varied among postgraduate-year nurses, which makes it challenging to establish training programs and develop evaluation instruments. Particularly critical for nurses is the ongoing acquisition of competencies throughout life. Sometimes this acquisition is funded by the healthcare system, but the key question is how the system leverages this acquisition and ultimately how it translates into patient care.