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Digital story telling in social justice nursing education
1University of Massachusetts, Amherst College of Nursing, Amherst, MA, USA.
Objectives:
The purpose of this study was to explore and evaluate how digital stories integrated into public health nursing education can teach social justice concepts essential for nurse leadership.
Design And Sample:
Four digital stories were selected and incorporated into a public health nursing course. Students were asked to reflect on these stories. A retrospective qualitative analysis was completed on the student narrative reflections and analyzed for themes. A total of 108 narrative reflections of public health nursing students were included from 2015 to 2016.
Results:
Themes were identified based on analysis and include-Encountering Vulnerability, Questioning Systems and Choosing Moral Courage.
Conclusions:
Digital stories offer an innovative medium to convey the importance of story, advance social justice as an essential practice of nursing, and create opportunities that addresses social justice in nursing and in developing nursing leaders.
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