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Andrea McCloughen1, Louise O'Brien, Debra Jackson
1School of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Health and Science, University of Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. andrea.mccloughen@sydney.edu.au
Abstract:
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.
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