Teaching the millennial generation: considerations for nurse educators.
A particular challenge for nurse educators has always been to discover the most relevant ways to promote student learning. Each generation of students presents with unique circumstances. The predominant characteristics of the current generation of nursing students are presented in this article. Suggestions are given regarding strategies to strengthen and maintain the characteristics that will be beneficial to students when they become RNs, while at the same time modifying or diminishing those that will not.
Department of Nursing, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, USA. johansonls@appstate.edu
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D015331:Cohort Studies; D008192:Deception; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D016901:Intergenerational Relations; D007858:Learning; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*