Student publishes paper in Nursing Times
Fiona Tevendale collaborated with Dorothy Armstrong to produce a paper which has just been published in the Nursing Times.
Fiona is a Third year student in the Undergraduate Nursing Studies programme, and was willing to share a few notes about writing the article.
‘The article Dorothy and I wrote was about using patient stories in nursing education, the idea came from the use of patient opinion (PO) in our classes over 1st and 2nd year. The University of Edinburgh had subscribed their nursing students to patient opinion so we were able to access stories on the PO website relevant to topics we were covering in lectures and tutorials and critically assess what went well or what went wrong in their experience of the health service, uniquely view the experience from the storyteller’s perspective.
I really like the idea of using PO stories, especially in early years of learning – traditionally stories have been used for centuries to pass on wisdom and knowledge. I became more involved when Dorothy was looking for someone to co present with at the patient opinion learning event in October 2013. We did a presentation about using stories in undergraduate teaching and learning at the event. The response from our presentation was amazing, those at patient opinion and the professionals present were really enthusiastic about the idea.
To view the presentation : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MqK8MOyvf4
After such a motivational positive response, we decided we would write an article for publication – so we met up to discuss our ideas every so often over many months and I started writing. Dorothy was fantastic to work with, really helpful at overseeing the whole project and guiding me how to write for publication in Nursing Times. The article was accepted in August 2014.
The article is available here: https://www.patientopinion.org.uk/info/using-patient-opinion-in-nurse-education.
The experience from the beginning has been highly valuable and developed my confidence in my so many skills, starting with organising for presentation, presenting and public speaking, social networking, academic writing for publication and reflection. For my nursing practice I feel I am developing a deeper insight into communication and compassion in person-centred care. Reading the stories, doing exercises in class using the stories, and reflecting on these I believe has developed my practice practically too, in the article I mention this. I am such a lucky student nurse to have had such a brilliant and valuable opportunity thanks to Dorothy, PO and the University of Edinburgh.
Well Done Fiona!
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Well done!!!!