Nurse mentoring study demonstrates a magnetic work environment: predictors of mentoring benefits among pediatric...

This descriptive, correlational research study applied a business mentoring model, the Mutual Benefits Model (M. G. Zey, 1991), to explore relationships among mentoring quality, mentoring quantity, mentoring type, length of employment, and mentoring benefits among pediatric staff nurse protégés in a single Midwestern, Magnet-designated, freestanding children's hospital. Results support the hypothesis that the linear combination of quality of mentoring and length of employment explained 40% of the variance in mentoring benefits, more than any one factor alone (R=.63, p=.01). Nurse mentoring, conceptually and experientially, demonstrates the Magnet model components and provides implications for the Magnet Journey.