A weekend and a lifetime: a linkage to empathy.
Introducing the complexities of today's health care environment to nursing students is challenging. This article relates an event-changing experience that led me to teach nursing students through storytelling. With instructors teaching from personal clinical experiences, students develop greater empathy and deliver more holistic nursing care, which is valued by all.
College of Nursing, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA. haysm@uah.edu
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