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The power of sharing stories has always been clear to me in my work around abortion care. Having spent equal amounts of time staffing clinics and rallying Maine movers and shakers, there is more...
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AAP Board President Traci Baird sits in for Executive Director Melanie Zurek, currently on maternity leave.   Bold and needed. At the end of 2007, AAP launched the Least...
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Educating through fiction PDF Print E-mail

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 .