February/March 2007
Table of Contents
Cover Story
32 ON THE RISE:
How do nurses get to the top? Do some plan their careers with an eye on the executive suite? Are the professionals who are moving into these roles today bringing a style or approach different from their predecessors? Newly minted BP of nursing Tracey Weintraub speaks candidly to NWM about her path upward, her biggest challenges and what it takes to be a leader. Her story may surprise you.
Sean O'Meara
FEATURES
20 A Formula for Success
Although mentoring isn't a brand spanking new concept, its importance to the grooming and retention of new nurses is gaining buzz. NWM talks to two women who represent what could be the ultimate nurse-mentoring story with some personal twists that only a Hollywood screenwriter could devise.
Loren Rutherford
26 Colleagues, Co-workers or Enemies?
The public might have a pristine view of nurses, but professionals on the inside know the industry has a reputation for "eating its young." Is this fact or lore? Profesor Susan Jo Roberts has extensively researched this phenomenon and offers insight that ever ynurse should have.
Susan Jo Roberts, DNSc, ANP, FAAN
COLUMNS
4 The Long Road Back or How One Editor Survived a Magazine Re-launch.
Sean O'Meara
18 The Boomerange Effect: Some thoughts on mentoring.
Kathleen Wojno, RN, MSN
DEPARTMENTS
6 Newswire
10 Vitals
16 Career
38 Living Wise
55 CE Spotlight
62 Calendar
64 Code & Endnotes
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