Story-based learning through dialogue in health care
▶Summary
Our overarching aim was to develop narrative based education in order to support nurse assistants, welfare professionals, therapist, medical doctors, and neuropsychologyst in approaching person ce...
▶Objectives
Our overarching aim was to develop narrative based education in order to support nurse assistants, welfare professionals, therapist, medical doctors, and neuropsychologyst in approaching person centred care. We did so by 1) designing a training together with primarily nurse assistants, welfare professionals and in cooperation with (para)medical staff (therapist, medical doctors, and neuropsychologist) including the use of co-creation techniques 2) develop, implement, and provide a personalised narrative-based training and 3) evaluating the provided training in order to further personalised narrative-based education by enabling the model to be adjusted to different contexts, needs, and learning objectives for vocational education and training. It fostered both the inclusion of these vocationally trained staff and further developed narrative education. The insights and project outputs are available on our website in four different languages (Dutch, Catalan, Spanish, and English) in order to be accessible for other institutions providing or developing vocational education to healthcare professionals.
▶Activities
During the project we: 1) Organised a kick-off meeting. The meeting was attended by 6 different both higher education and medical organisations, including medical doctors, nurses, and welfare assistants. The main aim of the meeting was to discuss the potential of narrative education and developing both the theoretical and practical framework for the training, identifying the special needs, and potential barriers for training implementation 2) Developed narrative education both in an in person and digital social media training for the targeted welfare professionals, nursing assistants, and healthcare professionals. Trainings were based on trainees preferences, needs, and overcoming potential barriers. In the Netherlands, professionals participated in providing some of the training content to their colleagues 3) Developed different evaluation material and techniques to assess the (short-term) impact of the training 4) Disseminated our training on our website and introduced the training among several organizations during a hybrid international meeting (NL) and an interactive symposium including an introduction to working formats from our training (SP). 5) Communicated and attracted new stakeholders through a day long conference.
▶Impact
1) Guidelines on narrative education for person-centred care as developed together with target audiences, available on the website caringstories.eu in different languages (Dutch, Catalan, Spanish, and English). 2) Social media training based on narrative education for person-centred care developed together with nursing assistants and welfare professionals. 3) An evaluation of the project and narrative education to be used for other organisations interested in narrative education for this audience. In our project, we trained approx. 40 professionals face to face in Spain and approx. 27 face to face in the Netherlands. The social media training is currently further implemented at Florence Zorggroep and will be followed by approx. 100-200 persons and embedded in theme weeks and during team meetings at all locations of this care organisations (13 in total). 120 representatives of more than a dozen different organisations attended our hybrid conferences (dissemination). 4) Ambassadors of the proposed training at the nursing and welfare institutions. These professionals spread the word and engaged in the proposed model of narrative-based training developed during this project at both nursing and welfare institutions to their colleagues.