title: Illuminating and inspiring: using television historical drama to cultivate contemporary nursing values and critical thinking.
abstract: As the world prepares to commemorate the centenary of the First World War, it is timely to discuss meaningful learning activities that students of nursing could be engaged in to encourage them to reflect on the nurse's role then and now. Several films and television series about the war and featuring nursing have already been aired. No doubt there will be many more stories to come. Such stories have the potential to do more than eulogise nursing for students and practitioners. Stories, such as The crimson field, have potential to stimulate serious contemplation about values and cultural practices that have remained constant or have changed and to assist students to develop and articulate values that will be fitting for contemporary practice. Recently, excerpts from the series were examined with a group of nursing students and key learnings were found. These are shared in this paper for the benefit of educators planning to utilise public discourse as triggers to engage nursing students in discussions about nursing values, nursing history and representations of the profession.
authors.affiliation: a School of Nursing and Midwifery , Central Queensland University , Australia.
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: McAllister
authors.affiliation: a School of Nursing and Midwifery , Central Queensland University , Australia.
authors.forename: Irene
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rogers
authors.affiliation: b School of Education and the Arts , Central Queensland University , Australia.
authors.forename: Donna
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lee Brien
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006676:History of Nursing; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008888:Military Nursing / Q000266:history*; D033262:Narration; D024802:Nurse's Role / Q000266:history*; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D012945:Social Values; D013338:Students, Nursing; D013690:Television; D013850:Thinking; D047828:World War I; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: creative writing; education; film; history of nursing; narrative; the crimson field