Mentoring Nurses in Political Skill to Navigate Organizational Politics

Table 3

Mentoring functions by rank order of mean scores for psychosocial and career subscale (scale range 1 to 6).

Scale scores		Number of items	Mean	SD	Low score	High score
Psychosocial mentoring functions
Role modeling	74	4	5.53	0.81	2.00	6.00
Learning facilitation	74	6	5.30	0.79	3.00	6.00
Personal and emotional guidance	74	8	4.85	1.20	1.13	6.00
Friendship	74	2	3.60	1.36	1.00	6.00
Career mentoring functions
Coaching	74	4	5.17	1.01	2.00	6.00
Advocacy	74	4	5.11	1.07	1.50	6.00
Career development facilitation	74	4	5.06	0.94	1.75	6.00
Strategies and systems advice	74	4	4.96	1.18	1.50	6.00