Interview Question
Purpose
1. What is your lived mentorship experience as a minority nurse faculty? Please describe both formal and informal mentoring.
Research Question I
2. From whom did you receive mentoring from? Please don’t share names, just explain whether it was a faculty member from your university, another university, someone in another role, and so on.
Research Question I
3. How were you linked with your mentor (preassigned; you sought out someone yourself; or evolved organically with a senior colleague with whom you were working)?
Research Question I
4. Please describe the type of interaction and activities you received during your mentoring experiences.
Research Question I
5. Of the interactions and activities in mentoring practices you mentioned, describe which were helpful and which were not as helpful for your personal and professional development.
Research Question I
6. Please describe your experiences of feeling supported as a minority nursing educator. Please discuss both internal and external supports as an educator.
Research Question I
7. Please describe your experiences of encountering barriers as a minority nursing educator.
Research Question II
8. Please describe your experiences with acculturation to academia.
Research Question II
9. Is your experience of mentorship mostly positive or negative? Please elaborate.
Research Question II
10. What has been the impact of mentorship on your career satisfaction?
Research Question II
11. Do you have anything else you would like to add about your mentorship experiences? Research I
Research II
12. If you had an opportunity to develop a mentoring program or a mentoring experience for future minority nursing faculty, what would that look like (i.e., what would you include)?
Research I
Research II