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. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.

Item Type:	Refereed Article
Keywords:	Engag; Meaning; Nurs; Student; Teach; human; methodology; nursing education; nursing evaluation research; nursing methodology research; nursing student; psychological aspect; public relations; review; teaching; Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate
Research Division:	Education
Research Group:	Curriculum and Pedagogy
Research Field:	Medicine, Nursing and Health Curriculum and Pedagogy
Objective Division:	Education and Training
Objective Group:	Teaching and Instruction
Objective Field:	Teaching and Instruction not elsewhere classified
Author:	Walsh, K (Professor Kenneth Walsh)
ID Code:	91149
Year Published:	2013
Web of Science® Times Cited:	13
Deposited By:	Health Sciences B
Deposited On:	2014-05-09
Last Modified:	2014-12-21
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