Mentoring is a process which bridges the gap between training process and real life experience. The concept of "mentoring" is a management mentality which discovers individual's potential, maintains to explore strong and weak traits of them, increases their motivations and performances, develops their leadership skills, accelerates personel evolution process, introduces how to cope with difficulties, and protects the individual against unnecessary risks. Mentoring is a method which increases the job satisfaction for nurses, and decreases feelings of worthlessness and weakness symptoms. When nursing management understands the importance of mentoring in their work environment; it improves job satisfaction, maintains more effective health care, and brings about an increase in more qualified health care outcomes. In this eclectic article, it was aimed to emphasize the importance of mentoring in theoretical framework and nurse managers' internalization of this mentality in nursing management services. By approving the necessity of having new roles, managers are trying to adopt "development and mentoring" approach instead of "command and control" approach for new roles. More comfortable orientations of young employees to the institution and institution culture are actualized by the guidance of their superiors. Therefore, mentoring has recently been taking place in the services which bring about great benefits for either institutions or individuals.