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- Title: All the Voices in the Room: Integrating Humanities in Nursing Education.
- Author : Nursing Education Perspectives
- Release Date : January 01, 2004
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 195 KB
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ABSTRACT Participatory action research was used to link the humanities with a deeper level of teaching and learning. Planning, action, reflection, and evaluation steps were collaboratively implemented by two nurse faculty researchers and five graduate nursing education students in a midsized, comprehensive, public midwestern university. Planning involved a literature review of the use of humanities in nursing education. Action entailed an essay assignment and an artwork-exhibition workshop. Written appraisal of the workshop provided data that were analyzed phenomenographically in the reflection step. Two categories, with descriptive subcategories, emerged: "Feelings" and "Learning Evaluation." Implications for nursing education leading to the generation of practical knowledge are discussed. The humanities, the branches of knowledge that address the state or quality of being human and living authentically (1), have been called the language of the soul (2). integrating the humanities in nursing education reinforces the balance between the art and science of nursing (I) and inspires and strengthens all the voices in tile room. Through images, symbols, and sounds, nursing students give voice to their appreciation for universal truths and tile uniqueness of the individual experience. * This article describes the integration of the humanities into a graduate nursing education course. Participatory action research (PAR), a form of action research that places prime importance on collaboration with participants by including them as co-researchers throughout the entire process (3), was used to link the humanities with a defter level of teaching and learning. Two faculty and five graduate students collaborated to implement this research method. THIS ARTICLE ADDRESSES THE PLANNING, ACTION, REFLECTION, AND EVALUATION COMPONENTS OF THE EXPERIENCE.