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Sunday, September 26, 2010
Title: Developing Empathy in Nursing Students: Using a Nurse/Patient Memoir as a Unifying Course Concept
Discipline: Professional Issues (PI), Newborn (NB), Childbearing (CB), Advanced Practice (AP)
Learning Objectives:
Submission Description:- List advantages of using popular literature to teach nursing students to internalize the concept of empathy
- Discuss alternative teaching methodologies such as narrative pedagogy to relate course content to clinical content
- Articulate the benefits of using a literary approach as an adjunct to traditional course content
Nursing students need to acquire and digest significant amounts of information, using a personal memoir written by a nurse allows them to engage with their clinical experiences in a way that is novel. This presentation discusses the successful use of medical memoir to augment an undergraduate obstetric/pediatric clinical and didactic rotation. Students learned to think about clinical situations in a way that became personal and broadened their experience.
