title: Transforming the findings of narrative research into poetry.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To offer dramatic poetry as representing findings from narrative research that is more accessible.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  This article is drawn from the author's doctorate work on how students' stories about their 'clinical' experiences can aid learning.
  
  
  METHODS
  Nursing students' stories of clinical practice experiences when engaged in the care of patients represented as dramatic poetry.
  
  
  METHODS
  Qualitative analytical approaches in narrative data analysis to provide a review of student stories from a variety of perspectives.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This article illustrates a method for converting story data to poetry. It suggests that a range of audiences can learn from nursing students' stories of clinical practice when translated into dramatic poetry.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Audiences can come close to understanding what students are experiencing in practice when engaged in the care of patients and learning from their practice experiences, when these experiences are expressed as dramatic poetry.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Representing findings from narrative research as dramatic poetry can help audiences engage with nursing students' experiences at an emotional level. Enabling researchers and readers to become immersed in the poem transforming their understanding of what the students have learned.
authors.affiliation: Buckinghamshire New University, Uxbridge, Buckinghamshire.
authors.forename: Sharon Lorraine
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Edwards
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002982:Clinical Clerkship; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008131:London; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D033262:Narration; D015402:Nursing Education Research / Q000379:methods*; D011037:Poetry as Topic; D013338:Students, Nursing; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Narrative methods; clinical practice; dramatic poetry; learning; narrative research; nursing students; poems; written stories