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.