Using Docudrama in a New Graduate Nurse Residency Program: Stepping Into the Lives of Families Experiencing Dementia.

Hospitals are increasingly implementing residencies to help ensure that new graduate nurses are prepared to provide safe and effective care. At the Cleveland Clinic, a docudrama focused on ethical concerns in living with dementia was implemented into a 6-month pilot new graduate nurse residency program. Outcomes suggest that the docudrama helped nurse residents gain empathy and understanding through stepping into the lives of families experiencing dementia.

Using Docudrama in a New Graduate Nurse Residency Program: Stepping Into the Lives of Families Experiencing Dementia.

Hospitals are increasingly implementing residencies to help ensure that new graduate nurses are prepared to provide safe and effective care. At the Cleveland Clinic, a docudrama focused on ethical concerns in living with dementia was implemented into a 6-month pilot new graduate nurse residency program. Outcomes suggest that the docudrama helped nurse residents gain empathy and understanding through stepping into the lives of families experiencing dementia.

Listening in thin places: ethics in the care of persons with Alzheimer's disease.

Healthcare professionals may see prolonging life and use of scarce resources as futile if the quality of life of persons with Alzheimer's disease is deemed to be poor. Thus, nurses and other healthcare providers need to question traditional assumptions of quality of life. This article presents a phenomenological study of ethical concerns related to quality of life as described by persons with Alzheimer's disease, family caregivers, and professional caregivers.