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This article describes an interdisciplinary creative collaboration between a group of academic researchers from the creative arts and nursing education, along with professional actors, who co-created a series of short film scenarios for pedagogic impact. The scenarios were intended to improve the experiences of nursing students on placement by supporting nurse educators to experiment with a transformative learning praxis in their pre-and post-placement interactions with students. This work addresses the process of collaborative content creation, which was undertaken through a method comprising character and story development drawn from screenwriting, improvisation and (Creative) Participatory Action Research. Beyond influencing nursing pedagogy, we suggest this approach has useful implications for creative practice disciplines more broadly, and the application of story development scenarios across a range of academic contexts for pedagogic impact. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the findings from a study introducing nursing students to narrative production. The aim was to use Story Theory to inspire students to intentionally collaborate with older people and produce a mini-biography of those individuals. Narrative theory was utilised in four ways: designing an educational intervention; collecting and developing older peoples' life stories; framing an understanding of the meaning of the stories collected; analysing the significance of the storytelling approach. The paper explains the study approach and findings and outlines the benefits as well as challenges that occurred during the process. Most particularly, the anthology produced has become a tangible reminder about a clinical practice that allowed students to meet frail aged residents and come to know them as vibrant human beings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract Although we know that quality of life (QOL) can greatly influence a person's well-being, the measurement of QOL in individuals with dementia has, unfortunately, been largely ignored as a [...]

More nurses than doctors killed in the Holocaust but are little studied. In Nazi 'euthanasia' institutional patients, with others, were killed by nurses. A German film, Fog in August (2016), tells of a boy caught in Nazi 'euthanasia'. We piloted the film to increase knowledge about nurses in Nazi 'euthanasia'. In Australia, 21 participants (health professionals, community members) completed pre-and-post questionnaires testing levels of knowledge. Knowledge increased – median post-score (1.75) > pre-score (1.0), median of differences 0.5 (p = 0.001). This film effectively increased knowledge, and the study methods worked. We will develop a project to teach nurses about genocides. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]