Creating a Learner-Centered Environment in Nursing Education: An Immersion Experience.

A call for change in nursing education has been issued in order to prepare the nurse of the future in a changing health care delivery system with increasing complexity. The learning environment is changing, including the faculty role. Innovative research-based pedagogies are suggested as a way to challenge traditional nursing education. The foundational learning theory course in our school of nursing program, Rethinking Nursing Education, is one way to begin creating a new world of nursing education. How better to fully appreciate the learning theories underpinning a learner-centered environment than an immersion experience?