Abstract
The purpose of this study was to describe distinction of mentoring in nursing, and inspect the influence of mentor on acquisition of professional autonomy in nursing expect managerial staff used "The scale for professional autonomy in nursing"
Registered nurses with clinical experience over 10 years expect managerial staff participated in a questionnaire survey,610 people who had the significant answer were the object of the analysis, 59.3％of them had mentor. The post of the then mentors was that "the nurse expect managerial staff" was 45.9%, "head nurse" was 29.8％, and "chief nurse or associate head nurse" was 18.0%. The state of acquisition of professional autonomy whether they had a mentor or not used "The scale for professional autonomy in nursing" was that as to the concept of professional autonomy as a whole, "the ability to recognize the inner side and to receive" and "the ability to recognize the situation "those were inferior dimension of that, the average of the group had mentor was higher significantly than that of the group didn't have mentor. As to comparison of the state of acquisition of professional autonomy by the post of the then mentors, there weren't significant difference.
