We have an opportunity to influence the next generation of nurse leaders. The PSNA Star Leadership Institute is in search of inspirational, articulate, nurturing mentors, from acute care and nursing academic settings. Mentors should promote new ideas and challenge the old ways of thinking and problem-solving for nurses.

The Institute will be held October 16 – 17, 2013 and April 9, 2014 at The Desmond Hotel, Malvern. Each Institute participant will be assigned a mentor. After completing a survey tool, you will be matched with a nurse manager from a similar facility and/or geographic region. We are inviting each mentor to attend the Institute on October 17 from 12 – 2 pm for the mentoring orientation session.

A mentoring educational program will be held on November 6, 2013 in Harrisburg. Mentors and mentees will be asked to attend this program date.

Mentors should have a minimum of five years progressive management experience at the manager, director or senior management level. Mentors must commit to building this relationship for a one-year period. Mentors and mentees may communicate electronically, by phone and/or in person over the course of the year to help the mentee meet his/her stated objectives.

Mentors will be invited to the Institute on April 9, 2014 to hear mentees present their projects and to attend the graduation ceremony.

If you fit the mentor criteria and desire to positively impact the next generation of nurse leaders, contact Patti Gates Smith at psmith@psna.org or at 717-798-9975 by October 4, 2013.