An innovative leap: Embracing new pedagogical approaches for clinical education

In response to increasingly complex care environments, a mid-sized research-intensive university in Western Canada engaged in an extensive curriculum redesign of the BSN program, including the development of an Innovative Clinical Learning Model. In this article, the authors share their experience of developing and implementing two innovative pedagogical approaches for clinical teaching in the medical surgical context. Program evaluation data indicated that these pedagogical strategies provided increased opportunities for timely application of theory in practice and facilitated students' development of clinical reasoning, skill mastery, and professional identities as accountable, responsible, ethical nurses.