Aesthetic Expression as a Means to Nurture "Self" in a Basic Nursing Care Practicum

Nurs Educ Perspect. 2024 Jan 16. doi: 10.1097/01.NEP.0000000000001235. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTNursing students develop their professional "self" through clinical placement experiences. Aesthetic expression can be used as a means to reflect students' personal knowing and to convey self as nurtured during their clinical journey. In a postconference session of the Basic Nursing Care Practicum course, six students were asked to draw pictures reflecting their clinical experience and then share their stories. It appeared that nursing students learned the meaning of nursing and caring, and through these meanings, their actual self as nurses was also developed.PMID:38227625 | DOI:10.1097/01.NEP.0000000000001235
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