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Describes a mentoring program which was developed as part of a nurse internship program for new nurses hired to work at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. Theoretical underpinnings of the mentoring program; Information on the principles of human becoming; Discussion on championing mentoring processes.

Mentorship has been rediscovered in the professional nursing literature. It is viewed as an integral relationship to be fostered between members of a discipline for the purpose of developing future nurse leaders. Inherent in the relationship are desired qualities or attributes that are to be taught and practiced by professional nurse leaders for the purpose of developing innovative institutional partnerships between healthcare agencies and schools of nursing. In this column, a unique definition of mentorship will be explicated from the human becoming school of thought. Ethical implications of the concept will be explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduces an article about mentoring of nurses.