Team-based learning: an innovative approach to teaching maternal-newborn nursing care.

Nursing education programs are charged with the task of transforming the way future nurses are educated to better meet the demands of an ever-changing health care system. The tradition of lecture-based theory courses and on-site clinical experiences is slowly being replaced by evidence-based teaching formats that focus on actively engaging students in their own learning. This article describes the process of integrating a new teaching strategy-team-based learning-into a maternal-newborn nursing course at a midwestern baccalaureate nursing program. Copyright 2013, SLACK Incorporated.