title: Meaningful and engaging teaching techniques for student nurses: a literature review.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing Midwifery and Indigenous Health, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, University of Wollongong, Northfields Ave, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia. kay@uow.edu.au
authors.forename: Kay
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Crookes
authors.forename: Patrick A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Crookes
authors.forename: Kenneth
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Walsh
mesh_terms: D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*