Using cooperative learning strategies to teach implications of the Nurse Practice Act.
Nursing education should include teaching strategies that encourage students to participate actively in the learning process. Cooperative learning is a teaching/learning strategy that promotes active student involvement and leads to enhanced problem-solving skills, greater retention of material, and transfer of learning. The author describes cooperative learning and its use in a leadership/management course to teach students about the provisions of the state's Nurse Practice Act.
D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007087:Illinois; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008008:Licensure, Nursing; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D011340:Problem Solving; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D014163:Transfer, Psychology