Meaningful and engaging teaching techniques for student nurses: A literature review

Helping undergraduate nursing students to contextualise theory learnt in the classroom to their professional practice can be challenging for nurse educators. This article provides a critical review of contemporary literature that explores strategies and techniques that nurse educators within univers...

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Published in:Nurse education in practice 2013-07, Vol.13 (4), p.239-243
Main Authors: Crookes, Kay, Crookes, Patrick A., Walsh, Kenneth
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult Basic Education
Adult Learning
Adult Students
Course Content
Education
Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate
Engag
Faculty, Nursing
Hospitals
Humans
Interprofessional Relations
Learning
Literature reviews
Meaning
Nurs
Nurses
Nursing
Nursing administration
Nursing education
Nursing Education Research
Nursing Evaluation Research
Nursing Methodology Research
Nursing Students
Student
Students, Nursing - psychology
Teach
Teachers
Teaching - methods
Theory
Thinking Skills
Undergraduate Students
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Summary:Helping undergraduate nursing students to contextualise theory learnt in the classroom to their professional practice can be challenging for nurse educators. This article provides a critical review of contemporary literature that explores strategies and techniques that nurse educators within university settings have adopted to address this challenge. This review was conducted as part of a broader research project that involved interviewing nurse educators to explore how they attempt to make their teaching meaningful and engaging for student nurses. The data was analysed using thematic analysis and the intention is to share the wealth of ideas gleaned with other nurse educators, including in the form of an evidence-based inventory of teaching approaches found to be effective in enhancing the meaningfulness and engagement of content to nursing learners.
ISSN:1471-5953
1873-5223
DOI:10.1016/j.nepr.2013.04.008