Authors

  1. Pardue, Karen T. MS, RN, BC

Abstract

Aesthetic teaching strategies provide nursing students with unique and memorable learning experiences. Exploration of aesthetic modalities fosters the ability to uncover meaning and significance of a situation. Readers theater stimulates these creative and imaginative elements. It involves a dramatic oral reading of a story by an assembled cast. Through this experience, students describe an enhanced sense of patient empathy, heightened concern for person-centered care, and a valuable opportunity for self-reflection. Aesthetic learning experiences support the development of a caring, humanistic professional.