Sestrinski glasnik, Vol. 27 No. 3, 2022.
Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.11608/sgnj.27.3.8
Teaching nursing art using literature, music and painting
Damjan Abou Aldan
orcid.org/0000-0003-0177-9813
; Srednja škola Koprivnica, Trg slobode 7, 48 000 Koprivnica
Marin Čargo
; Hrvatsko katoličko sveučilište, Ilica 242, 10 000 Zagreb
Abstract
Since the middle of the 20th century, through original nursing theories, attempts have been made to determine the authenticity of nursing as a discipline. It is mainly established in a departure from the classic biomedical paradigm, which is related to medicine and the medical profession. Florence Nightingale already considered this step necessary and established it in a holistic approach to man, which she defined through the concept of skill.
Many other theoreticians, starting with Peplau in 1952, determined that authenticity in nursing is in the knowledge between empirical and non-empirical, that is, what Cooper will call special knowledge in nursing. Given that these are theoretical models and concepts that have been developed mainly on American soil in the past decades, their influence is still at the level of developing unique assumptions and hypotheses and sporadic research.
Nevertheless, the phenomena that comprise these types of knowledge arise from the immediate experience of a person in illness or when recovering from health and are, therefore, in the domain of subjective knowledge. On the one hand, these experiences are difficult to conceptualize and research, and on the other hand, they are extremely challenging to teach.
The author proposes that, based on the available literature and positive examples from practice, as a teaching method for the feeling of compassion and understanding of experience, the contents of art should be introduced as suggested by Watson, for example, by exposing pupils and students to artistic content, their sensitization to emotional reactions with all positive consequences thereof.
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Publication date:
12.12.2022.
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