503695 - EDUCATION APPLIED TO NURSING SCIENCE

The primary purpose of storytelling in the Master's Degree in Nursing and Midwifery Sciences (LM/SNT1) is to train professionals capable of integrating scientific knowledge with the patient's lived experience, promoting a holistic and humanized approach to care.
The training program, which is laboratory-based, will explore the theoretical background and philosophical - pedagogical assumptions, with particular reference to phenomenology and hermeneutics, and qualitative research methodologies. Special attention will be paid to narrative techniques in the healthcare field and specific applications in nursing and midwifery research.
Aims of the course
Conoscenza e capacità di comprensione (Knowledge and understanding): Knowing relational approaches of a narrative nature in highly complex care situations, including in research settings
Conoscenza e capacità di comprensione applicate (Applying knowledge and understanding): implementation of reflective practice through the analysis of clinical experiences, the narration of experienced emotions, (narrative medicine), in order to improve self-awareness and the management of your own emotions.
Autonomia di giudizio (Making judgements): Apply narrative methodology as a pedagogical tool to develop leadership and decision-making skills in complex organizational contexts.
Abilità comunicative (Communication skills): apply relational and communicative approaches in highly complex clinical and organizational situations
Capacità di apprendere (Learning skills):
Use autobiographical and narrative methodology as a pedagogical tool to enhance narrative datas as qualitative evidence, useful for understanding the complexity of care needs and improving the quality of nursing processes.

At the end of the course the student will be able to

1. Relational and Empathic Skills (Medical Humanities).
• Active and deep listening: Gathering and enhancing the patient's perspective ("patient agenda"), improving the therapeutic alliance.
• Humanizing care: Integrating "storytelling" into clinical practice.
• Developing empathy and narrative skills: Interpreting patients' illness stories from the perspective of nursing care.

2. Reflective and Professional Skills
• Reflective Practice: Ability to analyze own work experiences, mistakes, or complex situations (narrative debriefing) to improve care.
• Building Professional Identity: Awareness of own role and managing emotional experiences to prevent burnout.

• Respect for Dignity: Ability to respect the beliefs, values, and wishes of patients.

3. Educational and Management Skills
• Narrative Teaching: Acquisition of tools to use narratives in nursing education (tutoring, internship supervision).

• Organizational Improvement: Using narratives to highlight critical issues in patient care pathways and propose solutions for improvement.

• Qualitative Research: Ability to interpret stories as qualitative data within nursing research.
4. Laboratory Operational Results
• Development of "care stories": Production of written or oral narratives (clinical narratives) describing complex care situations.
• Ethical analysis: Ability to use narratives to address bioethical dilemmas.