title: A Review of Mentoring in Education: Some Lessons for Nursing creator: Ehrich, Lisa C. creator: Tennent, Lee creator: Hansford, Brian C. subject: 130209 Medicine Nursing and Health Curriculum and Pedagogy subject: 111709 Health Care Administration subject: 111000 NURSING subject: mentoring subject: education subject: nursing subject: programs description: The mentoring relationship has been described as an invaluable learning activity for beginners as well as experienced practitioners such as teachers, administrators, nurses, managers, and other professionals. In an attempt to identify key outcomes of mentoring for the parties concerned, this paper examined some of the salient research literature on mentoring taken from the discipline of education. We drew upon the findings of a structured review, in which 159 pieces of empirical literature on mentoring in educational settings was examined. This paper reviews the positive and negative outcomes of mentoring for the mentor and protégé /mentee. Discussion of the findings and some important implications for those charged with planning mentoring programs in nursing are outlined. publisher: eContent Management Pty Ltd date: 2002-06 type: Journal Article format: application/pdf relation: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/2257/1/2257_1.pdf relation: Ehrich, Lisa C., Tennent, Lee, & Hansford, Brian C. (2002) A Review of Mentoring in Education: Some Lessons for Nursing. Contemporary Nurse, 12(3), pp. 253-264. identifier: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/2257/ rights: Copyright 2002 eContent Management Pty Ltd rights: Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. source: Faculty of Education