The Sailing Ship Without a Route and the Straight Wind

Abstract

The nursing profession requires sound theoretical knowledge and practical experience, to fulfill its main role in clinical practice. Providing care with evidence-based practices is one of the essential responsibilities of nursing. However, researching and producing evidence is a process that requires expertise and experience. Therefore, mentors are significantly important to guide the research. Mentors make an outstanding contribution to both the person they mentor and the development of their profession by directing all stages of the research and evidence production process in the best way. Mentors impart not only their professional knowledge and experience to their mentees, but also their moral and ethical values. Knowledge is essential, but the knowledge gained through a research filter that is accurate, reliable, and consistent with ethical values is more important and valuable. In other words, "how" we get is as important as "what" we get. Mentors support their mentees in the best way with their virtuous, reliable, empowering, motivating, ethical, and exemplary personality traits. Mentors make the mentee love research, production, nursing, and nursing science. With a solid mentee-mentor relationship, they tie the first solid knot and contribute to the mentee and mentors to form a strong chain, with the light breeze they provide, they can help in finding the direction of the non-route ships and keeping them steadily on their course. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023. All rights reserved.