title: Using Poetry Writing and Sharing to Promote Student Empathy and Caring.
abstract: A poetry writing activity revealed both empathy and caring among nursing students. Using course readings to identify a topic, students created and shared their poems in an online format. The poems and students' reactions concur with existing literature that poetry writing and sharing reveals empathy and caring. Suggestions for using a poetry writing activity in nursing education are included.
authors.affiliation: College of Health Professions, McAuley School of Nursing, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan (Dr Saunders and Ms Kowalski).
authors.forename: Mitzi M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Saunders
authors.forename: Sonya L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Kowalski
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D004645:Empathy; D006801:Humans; D011037:Poetry as Topic; D013338:Students, Nursing; D014956:Writing