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Narrative Learning in the Virtual Landscape: A Model
from a Baccalaureate Nursing Program
Meghan MacNamara, [email protected]
Course Description
ENG 350: Telling the Stories of Medicine
This course builds narrative competencies to inform communication between healthcare professionals and patients while providing creative resources for workplace challenges. Narrative arts will help to facilitate empathy in clinician/patient interaction.
Learning Outcomes
• Apply critical thinking to various narrative
formats.
• Construct original narratives that integrate
patient and clinician experience.
• Develop original work that reflects an ability to
listen actively to another’s experience.
• Identify necessary components of narrative in
the healthcare setting.
• Examine cohesive and detailed narratives in both scholarly and creative formats.
• Plan an original work that includes several interdisciplinary focal points within a single narrative.
• Solve technical problems and logical incongruities that obscure the clarity and/or intention of a narrative work.
• Utilize both scholarly research and personal experience in writing about a medically pertinent subject.
Learning Outcomes
Quality Matters
Course Overview & Introduction
Learning Objectives
Assessment &
Measurement
Instructional Material
Learner Interaction
& Engageme
nt
Course Technology
Learner Support
Accessibility
a balancing act…
applying and relieving…
pressure
When the pressure is reduced…
there is room to be playful, think, reflect and find meaning.
And the LearningManagement System(LMS) -- Blackboard
www.voicethread.com
EQUAL POWER SHARING
There were challenges…
Varietywas
necessary
a diversity of focal points…
…and a variety of online tools.
There is a sense of safety in
the distance created through virtual
discussion.
Debating meanings & intentionsDeepening of analysis
Sharing ideas & perspectivesDissecting narrative
Constructive criticism
Adaptation to 5-week
accelerated format
Student Feedback
“…completely
changed my
personal view and approach to nursing and made
me completely
re-evaluate
the importanc
e of nursing and the impact I
have in my job.”
“This course presented an amazing outlet for examining and meaningfully processing our experiences in health care and with patients. It provided an opportunity to step back and explore our passion for nursing and the human experience within nursing.”
…absolute need to present narrative-based humanities to students within all disciplines of health care education
The virtual landscape is a viable platform.
future possibilities for narrative
medicine in the virtual landscape