Is the story writing and story time an effective teaching method?
Carol Shieh, DNS, RN, C, Assistant Professor, Environments for Health, Environments for Health, Indiana University, 1111 Middle Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5107 This study examined the effectiveness of using the story writing and story time method in clinical teaching. Mezerows Transformative Learning Theory, Feminist Pedagogy, and Ricoeurs writing on narratives guided the development of this teaching method. Story writing and story time encourage students to relate theoretical disease concepts to patient reality and to engage in discussion and dialogue that help develop diverse patient interventions. This study included two phases of evaluation. In both phases, each student during a 7-week clinical wrote a story of an obstetric or a pediatric health problem. Each story included main characters, physical and psychosocial alterations, interdisciplinary interventions, and selected nursing focuses on patient teaching, ethics, and culture. Each story was read aloud by its writer and anal
