Mentoring: An Approach to Developing Leadership in Nurse Faculty Through an Innovative Clinical Simulation Project

An 18-month Nurse Faculty Mentored Leadership Development (NFMLD) program provided the opportunity for a novice nurse faculty to collaborate with an expert faculty leader to develop exemplary leadership skills and lead a team-based simulation project. The concept of a mentoring triad served as the relationship foundation. Each scholar and mentor dyad was linked to a faculty advisor to form a triad. The 3 goals of the NFMLD were individual leadership development, advancement of nursing education practice through a team-based leadership development project (LDP), and organizational change.