New nursing teaching strategies are adopted according to changes in social and health issues, classroom technologies, and students' characteristics. Based on the literature from 1950 to 2010, nursing teaching strategies had major changes around a decade, each had different direction, from focusing on nursing skill, to nursing critical thinking, to client centre, to experiential learning, to integrative learning. The literature review sheds lights on the history and factors of the changes. Nursing educators should keep examining own teaching to be up to date with the changes within and outside of nursing in order to meet the more and more diverse needs of students.