Nurse mentoring software
When nursing relationships align, excellence follows.
Structured mentoring for every nurse at every stage, from new-grad residency to the CNO pipeline. Keep your best people, grow your next leaders, and show the impact to anyone who asks.
Used by community hospitals, academic medical centers, and multi-facility health systems — with or without Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation.
Start where you are
One platform, from first shift to the C-suite.
Launch the program you need today. Add the next one when you’re ready — without a new vendor.
Keep new nurses past year one
Transition-to-practice and residency mentoring that targets the window when most RNs leave.
Grow your next nurse leaders
A leadership pipeline from bedside to charge nurse, manager, and CNO, aligned to the AONL Nurse Leader Competencies and built from people you already trust.
Pass on what only experience teaches
Clinical judgment, bedside instincts, and the culture of your units can’t be learned in a course. Mentoring passes them from your most experienced nurses to the next generation.
Plan for succession
Prepare ready-now successors for critical roles, so retirements and transitions don’t leave units without experienced leadership.
Why nurse mentoring
Nurses who feel supported stay. Nurses who stay grow.
Turnover is the most expensive problem in nursing — and the first year is where it starts. Structured mentoring gives new and experienced nurses a reason, and a person, to stay.
$60K
to replace one bedside RN
Retaining two or three nurses can cover the annual cost of Chronus.
22.7%
of RN departures happen in the first year
The exact window mentoring is designed for.
$295K
gained or lost for the average hospital
With every 1-point change in RN turnover.
Source: 2026 NSI National Health Care Retention & RN Staffing Report
The platform
Built for how nursing teams actually work.
Short on time, spread across shifts and sites. Chronus does the heavy lifting so mentors can focus on the conversation.
AI-generated Guided Conversations
Structured prompts for every session, tuned to each career stage.
New
AI Coach & Roleplay
Nurses rehearse hard conversations, then bring what they learned to their mentor.
eLearning & workshop management
Host SCORM courses and track workshop attendance alongside mentoring.
AI Goal Setter
Helps nurses turn what they want to grow into clear, trackable development goals.
AI Notetaker
Captures meeting summaries automatically, so nurses stay present in the conversation.
For program administrators
Easy to run, easy to report on.
Matching built on goals
MatchIQ® pairs nurses on what they want to accomplish, not just who’s available.
Reporting
Retention, engagement, and ROI for your CNO and CFO, plus which pairs need a nudge.
Multi-facility dashboards
Compare participation and outcomes across sites, and match nurses across facilities.
Internal mobility
See who’s ready for a new unit, specialty, or role, and keep experienced nurses in your system.
Magnet® & Pathway to Excellence®
Pursuing or sustaining designation?
Chronus supports Magnet® and Pathway to Excellence® health systems with ANCC-aligned documentation that makes every redesignation cycle straightforward.Built around Magnet® TL9 and Pathway EOP 6.2, 6.6 & 6.8
Not pursuing designation? Everything above works on its own.
Frequently asked questions
- Do we need to be pursuing Magnet® to use Chronus?
No. Most nursing teams start with Chronus to reduce first-year turnover or build a leadership pipeline. Recognition documentation is there if and when you need it — see Magnet & Pathway support.
- Does Chronus work for multi-hospital health systems?
- Yes. Chronus is purpose-built for health systems operating across multiple facilities. System-level dashboards give nursing leadership visibility across all hospitals simultaneously — comparing participation rates, mentor-mentee relationship health, and outcome trends by facility. Cross-facility mentoring is also supported, which is particularly valuable for system-wide leadership development and specialty nursing tracks.
- Can Chronus manage our existing eLearning and workshops?
- Yes. If your organization has SCORM-compliant eLearning courses you want to offer nurses, Chronus can host and deliver them alongside your mentoring programs — tracking completions and reporting activity in the same platform. Chronus also handles workshop and event management: registrations, attendance tracking, reminders, and completion reports. Your NPD team gets a single platform — and a single report — for all professional development activity.
- What makes Chronus different from other healthcare mentoring platforms?
- Where competitors lead with services and bolt on technology, Chronus delivers both — a purpose-built platform backed by the expertise to run it. Chronus is an enterprise-grade platform with AI-powered matching (MatchIQ®), AI-generated Guided Conversations built specifically for nursing career stages, a proprietary Purpose Assessment that surfaces each nurse’s intrinsic motivators before matching, and deep HRIS integrations with Workday and SAP SuccessFactors. The result: better matches, more purposeful mentoring sessions, and automated documentation that makes redesignation straightforward.
See what mentoring can do for your nurses.
Wherever you’re starting — retention, leadership, or recognition — we’ll show you a program built for it.