Teaching Models to Enhance the 21st Century Skills for Bachelor’s degree Nursing Students

Abstract

Teaching to promote university students’ learning skills in the 21^st century is very important. Teachers should pay attention to their teaching plans and strategies so that the students’ learning outcomes as set in the study program can be achieved.  The learning skills gained by students in the 21^st century should promote them to be smart, moral-minded, and happy.  These skills are vital and essential in the globalization era and for ‘Thailand 4.0’s national development policy that has a vision of “stability, prosperity, and sustainability”. This article aims to present a model of teaching and learning to enhance nursing students’ skills in the 21^st century.  Based on a review of literature and content analysis, teaching should include action learning in real nursing practice that emphasizes learner-centeredness.  The learning activities should promote an eagerness to learn and the hands-on practice of students as well as make them apply a thinking process in what they are doing so that they can develop their knowledge.  Teachers and educators should apply this teaching model for undergraduate nursing students in their teaching and in nursing education which consists of four main strategies: 1) experience sharing, 2) knowledge development and management, 3) knowledge presentation, and 4) hand-on practice (active learning) or knowledge application.