title: Creative teaching strategies.
abstract: Today's nursing students feel pressured to complete research-based professional papers. Reasons that these assignments cause feelings of anxiety may be due to learners' poor writing/thinking skills, low literacy levels, lack of attention when traditional strategies are used, or expectations of entertaining teaching methods. Creative teaching strategies, using a story-telling and personification approach, may assist nurse educators to improve students' attention, retention and comprehension of primary concepts in their nursing courses.
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Irvin
mesh_terms: D003405:Creativity; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*