Narrative medicine program
Narrative medicine was introduced to the undergraduate nursing residency program, which focuses on narrative medicine seminars and narrative writing. First, participants attend a 3.5-hour narrative medicine seminar that focuses on giving students a preliminary understanding of narrative medicine and narrative writing. Then, we encourage nursing students to use narrative writing methods based on narrative medicine theory to record the stories between interns and patients, interns and medical staff, and medical staff and patients during clinical practice, and evaluate and share their narrative works. The purpose of this process is to cultivate the professionalism, empathy and humanistic care ability of nursing students. The narrative medicine model consists of a series of activities, described as follows: