Learn about APNA's mentoring program!

1. APNA Mentor Match
A Member Bridge tool for
finding your mentor or mentee
and making contact

2. Accessing Mentor Match on
Member Bridge
Click on “Mentoring” in the main menu bar for options.

3. You can:
 Learn more about the program
 Enroll as a mentor or mentee
 Find a mentor or mentee
 Look at your mentoring
relationships
 Access a community of
members participating in the
program
 Browse resources for mentoring

4. About Mentor Match
This page gives a brief overview and directs you to pages
where you can edit your profile’s detailed information,
enroll as a mentor/mentee, etc.

5. Now you’re ready to enroll!

6. Step 1: Preparing Your Member
Profile
 The first step to participating in the Mentor Match
system is to complete your profile in the APNA
Membership Database.
 Follow the directions in the Step 1 box to edit your
Member Profile, then hit the “Refresh My Data link:

7. Preparing Your Member Profile
 Click on “Member
Profile” to edit your
detailed information.
 These fields will be
populated automatically
into your mentor/mentee
profile on Mentor Match.
(Don’t forget to “Save” when you’re finished!)

8. Step 2:Enrolling as a Mentor
• Most of the detailed
information will be
populated from
your APNA
Member Profile,
but you will also
need to complete a
few fields that are
specific to your
Mentoring Profile.

9. Mentoring Fields: Mentor Status
The status field allows you to select: whether you are
currently active or inactive as a mentor, the maximum
number of mentees you’d like to have at one time, and
your dates of availability.
 To edit your status at any
time, click on
“Edit Mentor Status”.

10. Editing Your Mentor Status
 You can enter start & end dates, choose to
temporarily not participate, and edit the maximum
number of mentees.

11. Mentoring Fields: Mentoring Venue
 Select how you’d like to interact with your
mentees: via internet, phone, video conference or
face-to-face.
 You can also communicate with your mentee
through Member Bridge via the “email” option.

12. Mentoring Fields:
Time Commitment
 The options for “Time Commitment” are:
 1-2 hours per month
 3-4 hours per month
 5+ hours per month

13. Mentoring Fields: Preceptor
 Indicate whether or not you are willing to serve as a
preceptor.

14. Populated Fields
 The rest of the Mentor Profile fields are populated from your
APNA Member Profile.
 For information on how to edit these fields, see “Preparing
Your Member Profile”.

15. Save Your Enrollment:

16. Mentor / Mentee Profile
 When you
enroll, a Mentor
and/or Mentee
Profile tab will
appear on your
Member Bridge
profile.

17. Mentor / Mentee Profile
 A Mentor or Mentee
Badge will also appear
under your Member
Bridge profile picture.
 A mentor/mentee can send
you a message in the
system through the link
underneath the badge.

18. Finding Mentees
Once you have enrolled as a Mentor, you can now
search for mentees through the Find A Mentee page.

19. Finding Mentees
 When searching, be
sure to note the
radio buttons that
indicate whether
you are searching
for ANY or ALL of
the selected values.

20. Finding Mentees: The Match
 Once you have chosen your “search by” fields, the
system will pull a list of enrolled mentees who
match the criteria indicated.
 You can then browse through the list, clicking on
the person’s more detailed Mentor Profile for
additional information to help in your choice.

21. Mentoring Request
 When you find a person with whom you’d like to
initiate a mentoring relationship, you can send a
request -- which will appear on the person’s My
Mentoring Relationships page.
 The person can then review the request, and
accept or decline it.

22. My Mentoring Relationships
This page shows any requests, active relationships,
previous mentoring relationships, and declined requests.

23. Mentees Searching for Mentors
 The Enroll as a Mentee and Find A Mentor
pages are very similar, and the processes for
finding a match are the same:
 Enroll as a Mentee
 Find A Mentor
 Review the List of Matches
 Send a Request

24. The Mentor Match
system helps members
find each other,
initiating the mentoring
relationship.

25. Mentoring Resources
 Resources will be available to assist and advise,
some of which the Administrative Council’s
workgroup for mentoring have been compiling.
 Possible educational session about mentoring and
developing the mentoring relationship
 Possibly with contact hours and posted on the APNA
eLearning Center

26. Mentoring Resources
 Member Bridge community for members enrolled
as Mentors and/or Mentees
 Directory
 eGroup
 Library
 Blogs

27. Plan for Launch
 Recommendations from the BOD & Councils on
the profile fields
 Development of materials for mentoring resources
by the councils
 Launch to APNA membership as a “beta test”
 Ask for feedback & recommendations from
participants
 Improve / make changes as necessary!