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“In Touch With My Creative Side”: Supporting Self-Care Among Nursing Students Through Arts-Based Pedagogy., Kathy O'Flynn-Magee, Allie Slemon, Jill Mahy, Emily K. Jenkins

Quality Advancement in Nursing Education - Avancées en formation infirmière

Nursing students experience academic, practice-related, and personal stressors, all of which can affect their learning, fitness-to-practice, and overall well-being. One way for educators to support students’ well-being is to foster their capacity for, and enactment of, self-care. We used an arts-based assignment that required students to reflect on the stressors they encountered and engage in strategies to relieve their stress and provide self-care. The assignment also provided students with a creative outlet for managing the stressors they faced during their program of study. We designed a web-based survey comprised of Likert scales and three open-ended questions to explore students’ perspectives …