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Using Visual and Narrative Methods to Achieve Fair Process in Clinical Care
Published on: February 16, 2011
Storytelling as a Tool for Nurses and Nursing Students
Mark Darby1, Mary C Petersen, Amelia Stoltman
1Mark Darby is an instructor and codirector of the Creative Writing Project at University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) College of Nursing in Omaha, and clinical director at North Omaha Area Health. Mary C. Petersen is an instructor and codirector of the Creative Writing Project at UNMC College of Nursing. Amelia Stoltman is an administrator and Margaret Gilmore is a project researcher at UNMC College of Nursing. Contact author: Mark Darby, mark.darby@unmc.edu . The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
Abstract:
Finding healing and improved communication through imagining another's perspective.
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