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Promoting Understanding Through Shared Human Connection in Photographs
- Date Issued:
- 2018
- Abstract/Description:
- Despite the nursing code of ethics, nurses may stigmatize persons experiencing homelessness, and this can impact the quality of care given. Visual art has the potential to create dialogue and promote social change. However, there is little existing research on how art impacts those observing it. The purpose of this descriptive pilot study was to explore nurses’ perceptions surrounding homelessness by exposing participants to an artistic representation depicting homelessness and shared human connection. A deductive, qualitative approach was used to examine positive and negative word use in writings completed by graduate nursing students before and after viewing a photographic exhibit. Findings revealed little change in negative word use and an increase in positive word use. These findings suggest that visual art may have the potential to increase empathy and humanization toward the people depicted.
Title: | Promoting Understanding Through Shared Human Connection in Photographs. |
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Name(s): |
Schayes, Emily Opalinski, Andra |
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Type of Resource: | text | |
Genre: | Poster | |
Date Created: | 2018 | |
Date Issued: | 2018 | |
Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
Place of Publication: | Boca Raton, Florida | |
Physical Form: | application/pdf | |
Extent: | 1 p. | |
Language(s): | English | |
Abstract/Description: | Despite the nursing code of ethics, nurses may stigmatize persons experiencing homelessness, and this can impact the quality of care given. Visual art has the potential to create dialogue and promote social change. However, there is little existing research on how art impacts those observing it. The purpose of this descriptive pilot study was to explore nurses’ perceptions surrounding homelessness by exposing participants to an artistic representation depicting homelessness and shared human connection. A deductive, qualitative approach was used to examine positive and negative word use in writings completed by graduate nursing students before and after viewing a photographic exhibit. Findings revealed little change in negative word use and an increase in positive word use. These findings suggest that visual art may have the potential to increase empathy and humanization toward the people depicted. | |
Identifier: | FAU_SR00000053 (IID) | |
Collection: | FAU Student Research Digital Collection | |
Subject(s): | College students --Research --United States. | |
Held by: | Florida Atlantic University Libraries | |
Sublocation: | Digital Library | |
Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAU_SR00000053 | |
Restrictions on Access: | Copyright © is held by the author, with permission granted to Florida Atlantic University to digitize, archive and distribute this item for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires permission of the copyright holder. | |
Host Institution: | FAU | |
Is Part of Series: | Florida Atlantic University Digital Library Collections. |