Mentoring is an essential component in educating nurses and sustaining leadership. Mentoring relationships, benefits, and examples of mentor-mentee roles in nursing setting will be addressed. An overview of the mentoring cycle in nursing will be explained. Mentoring is a vital process in nursing; it is a means for experienced nurses to orient and to facilitate acclimation of novice nurses to their new role. This process involves the art and science of guiding another through the purposeful actions of inspiring, coaching, teaching, directing, and leading an individual to a new place of cognition (Barker, 2006: Metcalfe, 2010)