Purpose: Empathy is deemed essential to nursing, yet interventions that promote and sustain empathy in practicing nurses within healthcare organizations are limited. We tested the feasibility and perceived impact of an arts-based narrative training intervention involving pediatric rehabilitation nurses for the purpose of promoting nursing empathy.
Design And Methods: One-group qualitative repeated-measures design at an urban Canadian pediatric rehabilitation hospital. Eight nurse participants attended six 90-minute weekly group narrative training sessions and two in-depth interviews pre- and post-intervention.
Results: The intervention positively impacted participants in three primary domains: Empathy for Patients and Families, Empathy Within Nursing Team, and Empathy for the Self. Major findings included: increased value placed on patients' and families' backstory, identification of "moral empathic distress" (MED), enhanced sense of collaborative nursing community, and renewal of professional purpose.
Conclusions: This study is the first of its kind conducted in the pediatric rehabilitation nursing context. Results indicate that arts-based narrative training enhances nursing empathy and contributes to a supportive nursing culture.
Practice Implications: In addition to enhancing empathy in clinical domains, nurses who participated in narrative training reported improved team collaboration, self-care practices, and renewed professional purpose. The results from the intervention are encouraging and future research needs to explore its utility in other settings with larger and more diverse sample.
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Experimental and Applied Psychology Laboratory, Department of Human Sciences, Università Europea di Roma, Rome, Italy.
This paper describes the theoretical and practical aspects of Immersive Education, an educational methodology based on interactive narratives, articulated as emotional journeys, to develop competencies. It has been developed throughout three school years (2021-2024) with more than 400 students (8-12 years old) in Public Schools in Italy and Spain. Immersive Education can be integrated with curricular school activities and can be used to target both curricular and transversal learning objectives, specifically the ones connected with the Personal, Social and Learning to learn Key Competence (LifeComp European framework).
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UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States.
Introduction: Psychedelic compounds such as LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, and DMT can dramatically alter visual perception. However, the extent to which visual effects of psychedelics consistently vary for different substances is an open question. The visual effects of a given psychedelic compound can range widely both across and within individuals, so datasets with large numbers of participants and descriptions of qualitative effects are required to adequately address this question with the necessary sensitivity.
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Clinical Education, Edinburgh Medical School, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, GBR.
Anatomy education, which forms the cornerstone of today's medical education, has traditionally centered on cadaveric dissections and prosections as its core teaching methods. However, these methods present with challenges, including student anxiety, nausea, and limited cadaver availability. Recent advancements in digital technologies have led to the proliferation of innovative learning tools, introducing novel and transformative approaches to enhance anatomy education.
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Department of Statistical Sciences, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
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