Affiliation:
1. Professor of Nursing, Graduate Nursing, Salem State University, Salem, Massachusetts.
Abstract
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.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Subject
Review and Exam Preparation,LPN and LVN,Fundamentals and skills,Education