title: Using cooperative learning strategies to teach implications of the Nurse Practice Act.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: 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