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Educating through fiction |
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How do fiction and nursing education mix? AAP's ROE Consortium member Janet Engstrom and co-author Ramona G. Hunter explore how such a combination can be the key to more engaged class discussions an better prepared nurses. Their new article on fiction and abortion education, "Teaching Reproductive Options through the Use of Fiction: the Cider House Rules Project " was recently published in the Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing. Fiction by nature invites a reader into the characters' lives, offering a toll to humanize the politicized content of abortion for nursing students. For more information on this article and other curriculum tools for abortion education, click here .
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