1. Nursing Students' Experience of a Poverty Simulation and Its Impact on Empathy and Social Justice Awareness: A Descriptive Qualitative Study.
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Holland, Tamara, Walter, Laurie, Langevin, Kerri, Bourgoin, Adam, McKelvey, Michele, Kirk, Christine, and Thomas, Catherine
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PSYCHOLOGY of college students , *EMPATHY , *SOCIAL determinants of health , *PATIENT advocacy , *HEALTH occupations students , *RESEARCH methodology , *SIMULATION methods in education , *SOCIAL justice , *BACCALAUREATE nursing education , *EXPERIENCE , *QUALITATIVE research , *NUTRITION education , *STUDENTS , *UNIVERSITIES & colleges , *EXPERIENTIAL learning , *AT-risk people , *RESEARCH funding , *NURSING students , *STUDENT attitudes , *POVERTY , *JUDGMENT sampling , *THEMATIC analysis , *EMOTIONS , *HEALTH equity , *REFLECTION (Philosophy) - Abstract
Holistic nursing practice requires an understanding of the constraints of poverty as one of the social determinants of health. Future nurses need to be change agents for social justice. A descriptive, qualitative study was conducted to explore students' experience of the Missouri Association for Community Action Poverty Simulation© (CAPS) and its impact on empathy and social justice awareness among a purposive sample of 56 sophomore baccalaureate nursing students at a public university in the Northeastern United States. Inductive thematic analysis was applied to data collected from a postparticipation reflection paper. Five themes emerged: (a) emotions, (b) personal history of poverty, (c) empathy, (d) rising advocacy, and (e) lessons learned. The results support that the CAPS simulation provides an experiential opportunity which impacts empathy and foundational attitudes to be a change agent for social justice. Recommendations include structured education about social determinants of health prior to the CAPS simulation, continued education throughout nursing curricula, and experiential opportunities to apply social justice skills before graduation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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