Reverse Mentoring in Nursing Education.

BACKGROUND

Nurse educators are challenged to prepare an expanding number of diverse students with various sociocultural and generational differences. Whether diversity, sociocultural, and/or generational divides are contributory, a perennial decline exists of historically disenfranchised students finishing nursing programs. Reverse mentoring is an innovative adaption of traditional mentoring. Reverse mentoring is a practice that reverses traditional mentor and mentee roles, which may mitigate diverse and intergenerational misconceptions.

PURPOSE

To prepare a diverse nursing workforce, educators should integrate strategies to embrace differences, reduce biases, remove learning barriers, and value learning new teaching methods.

METHODS

A literature review revealed few articles on reverse mentoring in nursing education.

RESULTS

Reverse mentoring is a successful strategy in many Fortune 500 companies. Therefore, reverse mentoring may demonstrate promise in nursing education.

CONCLUSION

Exploring reverse mentoring in nursing education may reveal strategies to elucidate and mitigate biases and barriers in nursing education.