Nurses nurturing nurses: A mentoring program

An increasing shortage of nurses, demanding work environment, and alarming statistics indicating that almost half of all new nurses leave their first professional nursing position within the first year motivated the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses (AMSN) to develop a mentoring program for new graduate nurses. Through the guidance and leadership of Marlene Roman, MSN, RN, APRN, past-president of AMSN, and the AMSN board of directors, the mentoring program Nurses Nurturing Nurses (N3) was initiated in 2002.