Narrative Writing for Health Care Professionals
The CHMP’s program in Narrative Writing for Health Care Professionals has been developing writing curricula and offering writing courses and workshops in a variety of formats suited to various audiences. Senior fellows Jim Stubenrauch and Joy Jacobson aim to help nursing students and other health care professionals to become more effective participants in interprofessional care, patient education and advocacy, and policymaking.
What distinguishes our program is that we seek to achieve these ends by artistic means. We have seen that by engaging students and working clinicians in a process of self-discovery, through writing and aesthetic appreciation, they become more invested in improving their writing. Such engagement and investment are crucial. Taking inspiration from the growing fields of narrative medicine and medical humanities, we have found that writing reflective narratives about their personal lives and clinical work can be transformative for nursing students and other clinicians. Indeed, such writing has been shown to enhance interpersonal skills, increase job satisfaction and retention, and promote empathy among health care workers.
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