Nursing Students and the Human Body: Application of an Ethics Pilot Project

Layla Garrigues, Isabelle Soulé and Amber L. Vermeesch
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Layla Garrigues: School of Nursing and Health Innovations, The University of Portland, 5000 N, Willamette Blvd., Portland, OR 97203, USA
Isabelle Soulé: School of Nursing and Health Innovations, The University of Portland, 5000 N, Willamette Blvd., Portland, OR 97203, USA
Amber L. Vermeesch: Department of Family and Community Nursing, School of Nursing, University of North Carolina Greensboro, 1007 Walker Avenue, Greensboro, NC 27402, USA

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 18, 1-8

Abstract: This manuscript offers findings from a pilot project which prepares nursing students for embodied professional practice through the lens of ethics. Four undergraduate nursing students were mentored by two nursing faculty in the Dundon-Berchtold Institute Faculty Fellowship Program in the Application of Ethics through an exploration on the ethics of embodiment using an arts pedagogy across one academic year. Inspired by the intersection of nature and health, this project explores the impact of an arts-integrated pedagogy on the human body. The findings from this project provide a natural first step for nursing students to consider multiple interpretations of the human body and to facilitate the students’ development of an embodied ethical practice that is perceptive, empathic, and attuned to themselves as natural beings as well as diverse individuals and populations. The findings from this pilot project presents a pivotal opportunity to guide future nursing curricular development toward holistic, nature-inspired, and mindful-based interventions in order to increase resilience, decrease risk factors of compassion fatigue and burnout, and support nursing students to develop strength-based skills to use in their professional nursing practice.

Keywords: nature; connectivity; natural worlds; environment; arts; embodiment; physical body; attunement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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