Date of Award
Fall 12-17-2021
Abstract
Florence Nightingale’s vision for nursing has changed greatly in the past one hundred and fifty years, with nursing’s identity replaced with an emphasis on science over caring. The fast-paced, technologically sophisticated environments, designed to meet the declining health of an American public, have resulted in nurses who are being pulled away from nurse-to-patient caring acts and the reasons they felt called to become nurses. These changes have had detrimental psychological and emotional effects on nurses and are especially evident in Intensive Care nurses. Expressive writing as poetry, autoethnography, and participation in vibrant writing communities offer nurses experiences for healing, voice, and empowerment, as evidenced in the personal work of the author.
Advisor
Dr. Amy Hodges Hamilton
Committee Member 1
Dr. Amy Hodges Hamilton
Committee Member 2
Dr. Sarah Blomeley
Committee Member 3
Dr. Heather Finch
Department
English, Department of
College
Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, College of
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
Master of Arts (MA)
Degree Level
Master's
Degree Grantor
Belmont University
Recommended Citation
Henry, Kim Cornett and Henry, Kim Cornett, "A Call To Create: Poetry As Healing and One Nurse’s Self-Discovery" (2021). English Theses. 6.
https://repository.belmont.edu/english_theses/6
Included in
Alternative and Complementary Medicine Commons, Critical Care Nursing Commons, Medical Humanities Commons, Other Arts and Humanities Commons, Other Medicine and Health Sciences Commons, Personality and Social Contexts Commons, Poetry Commons
