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.