Arts-Informed Narrative Inquiry into nurse-teachers’ legacy for the next generation.

Fewer teachers are available globally for nursing education positions, a fact exacerbated by retirement of ageing colleagues. As two late career nurse-teachers, we use Arts-Informed Narrative Inquiry to explore experiences of Canadian contemporaries to discern the legacy we have to share with nurse-teachers who come after us. Narrative Inquiry is a research process that reconstructs personal and professional experience to reveal learning and knowledge construction in researchers and teachers. It involves lifelines, stories, metaphors, collage-making and reflective dialogue to reveal what experienced nurse-teachers have learned about teaching-learning over their professional trajectories. As an outcome of this study, we offer a letter to new teachers as a legacy arising from conceptualizing teaching-learning practice as humanness of care; the creative processes for self-directed, site-specific faculty development are transferable to any professional and geographical contexts. The paper illuminates how research, education and practice are mutually informing and how emergent inquiry approaches are significant for faculty and curriculum development, as well as transformation of practices. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]