Socialization and Mentoring

Abstract

Nurses and nursing are constantly changing. There are no nurses who enter and exit their nursing career in the same setting, under the same set of expectations. Indeed, the variety of careers and opportunities available to nurses are some of the most important influential recruitment and retention strategies in health care settings. Nurses can change clinical specialties with ease; leave employers for short- or long-term absences; rarely, if ever, experience lack of employment opportunity; work full- or part-time; and avail themselves of a plethora of specialist training or reentry programs when such potential change seems opportune.