"Putting the words 'I am sad', just doesn't quite cut it sometimes!": the use of art to promote emotional awareness in nursing students

Nurse Education Today
Kirsten Jack

Abstract

This paper explores a way in which Heidegger's later philosophy on meditative thinking can be used to support the development of emotional self awareness in pre registration nursing students. The development of art work supported the consideration of feelings in relation to particular incidents from practice. The students were afforded the opportunity to think 'for thinking's sake' about their feelings around emotionally challenging situations. They were then more able to consider others' feelings and think differently about the situations encountered. The students found the process beneficial although in an already packed curriculum, it may be difficult to afford the time and space needed to adopt more transformatory ways of learning. A more objective and focused delivery may be preferable to the nurse educator, but when exploring human emotion, consideration could be given to whether this is beneficial to the student.

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Dec 24, 2014·The Journal of Nursing Education·Patricia A Dwyer, Susan M Hunter Revell
May 11, 2015·Nurse Education Today·Kirsten Jack
Sep 10, 2015·Nurse Education in Practice·Josie TetleyElaine Walker
Apr 23, 2016·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Simona Karpavičiūtė, Jūratė Macijauskienė
Jun 29, 2016·The Journal of Nursing Education·Megan NguyenFaith Donald
Oct 9, 2015·JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports·Kendra RiegerLisa Demczuk
Aug 28, 2018·The Journal of Nursing Education·Stacy L LutterJodi L Jarecke
Aug 21, 2019·International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship·Kirsten Jack, Sam Illingworth
Apr 22, 2018·European Journal of Dental Education : Official Journal of the Association for Dental Education in Europe·J Lewis, K Jack
Dec 13, 2016·JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports·Kendra L RiegerLisa Demczuk

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