Health Care Professionals' Journeys of Caring Through Portraiture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15745646 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stacey Ocander (Metropolitan Community College, corresponding author), Lori Saville (Metropolitan Community College), Mark Gilbert (0000-0001-5713-0664, Dalhousie University), Regina Idoate (0000-0001-5782-4455, University of Nebraska Medical Center) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | E505-512 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The AMA Journal of Ethic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2376-6980 • E-ISSN: 2376-6980 |
| Publisher | American Medical Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1001/amajethics.2020.505 |
| PMID | 32580826 |
| OpenAlex | W3032843362 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Metropolitan Community College, a comprehensive multicampus academic institution in Omaha, Nebraska, installed portraits by the third author (MG) in the Health Careers Building and integrated them into an associate degree nursing curriculum. One goal was to expose nursing students to patients' stories in ways that encourage them to look beyond pain rating scales and protocols to the many dimensions of patients as human beings. Using portraiture in this way could be applied to any health professions curriculum, as the intersections of humanities and health care prompted students and clinicians to look beyond science and into the emotional journeys of caring
Health care · Health professionals · Political science · Empathy and Medical Education · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |