![]() ![]() Humans have been sharing stories with each other, with and without words, since the dawn of recorded history, but the cognitive foundations of the behaviour can be traced deeper into our past. Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United KingdomĮngaging in the art of creating and telling stories is a defining behaviour of humankind.Last, making suggestions about other things, other people, other topics and trends that are emerging in healthcare, because a lot of times nurses see things that are emerging as problems or they see solutions to things, or they fix something themselves that can be spread that people may not be aware of.Elias Garcia-Pelegrin * Clive Wilkins Nicola S. ![]() That's really important, making sure that your voices are heard. Also, sharing your own experiences, making yourselves available, offering assistance, being a resource. Reaching out through social media or through emails or phone calls or whatever and sharing story ideas, what worked, what didn't work in a story that people are working on. We like talking to people that's one reason we went into this profession, and we like getting feedback about our work so we can improve it, or so we can do more of it if you think it's wonderful. Journalists love to hear from members of the public. I would say, again, remember that it's a relationship and start trying to build it. I think it fuels you to keep going to share those stories or just write them for yourself. Also, to capture those stories because it's a historic moment. I think particularly with nurses dealing so much with this pandemic and seeing so much illness and seeing so much death, it's really important to have a release for those kinds of things. I didn't realize how much it was a release for me in terms of doing those stories over the years. Those are things that I've experienced and people in my community have experienced and had a lot of questions about. More recently, I've been working on a series that's about the impact of the rubber industry on health in Akron, Ohio, in Northeast Ohio where I grew up. I've found it cathartic for me, whether I've written about deaths in my family or when my mother had dementia. I think it's really important to do that and it's good that you're involved with Stor圜orps as well, but even if you're just writing it for yourself and no one else sees it, I think that's really important. It helps people understand different things. Some of it is not always journalistic, some of it's fictional as well, but there are so many stories that nurses see all the time. ![]() A lot of programs are doing more narrative storytelling that is connected to health education in different forms, whether it's for physicians or nurses. ![]() Take advantage of those things, build your own communication skills. Sometimes you have to reach out to the people who interact with the media to let them know, "I'd be interested in doing interviews." Or leverage whatever media exists within your organization, in addition to any kind of medical journal writing that you're doing, or even nursing websites and publications or things that are dealing with the public, or blogging. I know sometimes they have to be careful about what they release, sharing those stories and making themselves available too, because sometimes people don't think about, as we talked about, referring to nurses to be experts. A lot of times you see people telling stories, say on Medium, writing stories there, or just even sharing stories on social media. I think nurses can also tell their own stories maybe even try to do some writing. Lamb says, “You're telling an incomplete story if you're not including nurses.” In this interview, Henry and Lamb discuss how nurses can become valued media sources, establish their voices and be effective storytellers. Yanick Rice Lamb, professor and former chair of the Department of Media, Journalism and Film at Howard University, was among the panelists to present the new Woodhull study to the press in 2018. In an interview with the Associated Press for a story about nurses, Henry was the only nurse and female interviewed, and her quote was buried at the end of the article. During the pandemic, Kiersten Henry, an AACN board member and critical care nurse practitioner, shared her extensive front-line COVID-19 experiences with several media outlets. Twenty years later, a replication of that study found almost no improvement in the numbers. In 1997, “The Woodhull Study on Nursing and the Media” found that nurses were quoted as expert sources in just about 4% of health news stories in leading newspapers. ![]()
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