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Using Visual and Narrative Methods to Achieve Fair Process in Clinical Care
Published on: February 16, 2011
Learning the Patient's Story
Objectives:
To provide a brief history on narrative medicine and highlight its importance in providing quality patient care.
Data Sources:
Explains narrative medicine using published, peer-reviewed literature and highlights some of the literary, medical, sociological, and communication perspectives that contributed to the narrative medicine movement.
Conclusion:
A commitment to the patient-provider relationship and knowing the patient's story is a critical aspect in providing quality cancer care.
Implications For Nursing Practice:
Teaching oncology nurses skills that are grounded in narrative medicine will improve health care by increasing the nurses' knowledge of their patients and strengthening the nurse-patient relationship.
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