title: Poems, patients, and psychosocial nursing.
abstract: 1. Holism can prove just as elusive in psychosocial nursing as in any other specialty area. 2. Students in an undergraduate psychosocial nursing course used poetry to express the fullness of the situations in which they found themselves. 3. The poems touched a deeper and more complete sense of humanity than had been possible in other, more traditional, assignments.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 500 University Avenue, #2401, Honolulu, HI 96826-4906, USA. tolson@hawaii.edu
authors.forename: Tom
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Olson
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D011037:Poetry as Topic; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education*