Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Corso di laurea in infermieristica - Sede di Modena
| Thesis Title | Medical Humanities: from Narrative to Digital Storytelling, in the contexts of nursing and training. |
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| Name | Veronesi Agata |
| Supervisor(s) | Bigliardi Maria Cristina |
| Academic Year | 2016/17 |
| Thesis type | Non research thesis |
Abstract
The thesis provides into Medical Humanities, on Narrative Medicine and on Digital Storytelling. At the beginning I treated the origins of Medical Humanities, philosophy that developed, then I entered before in Narrative Medicine and then in the practice of Digital Storytelling. Narrative Medicine, recognizes the complexity of the person as such and his testimony as diseased, exceeds the limits imposed by the biomedical model emphasizing the viewpoint of the assisted person, in a process of involvement and care sharing "patient centered". The narrative is therefore not only a method of information itself, but restores dignity to the person, embracing the complexity, captures from within the meaning of learning and caring. Many are the possibilities and areas of application of narrative device not only in clinical settings, but also in training, since it helps to educate the report and is a powerful tool of development of emotional competence. It is used in fact, in the form of reflective diary, but also through art and literature and in recent years has increasingly taken hold in the form of Digital Storytelling (DST). These are digital narratives, which tell stories of patient illness or even care professionals, they are telling themselves through this new and innovative way. These Digital Storytelling can be applied to various fields and contexts both clinical training: paediatric to adult, that from chronic diseases, end-of-life, therapeutic education contexts.
During my internship experience, I could experience that the narrative path favours professional but also personal development, in caring for the assisted person through the narration of the disease, as a powerful tool for treating the patient and even the nurse himself.