Reinventing Nursing Through the Arts and Media

Catalog description

This course analyzes images of nurses and nursing in the arts and media (fiction, poetry, theater, painting, photography, film and television) and examines how those images affect the identity of individual nurses and the nursing profession. The course will explore race, religion, ethnicity, socio-economic classes, leadership, authority and power through the representation of nurses in various arts and media. Students will develop an aesthetic sense through the study of arts and media that is applicable to nursing practice and that can deepen nurses¿ understanding of their professional roles and lives of their patients. Perceived views of nurses and nursing will be challenged and a framework for the reinvented nurse will be developed.