How fiction and the community pool is helping nursing students

To understand the work they are doing in their practice placements with older adults, nursing students are taking to the books. And not just textbooks, but a fictional novel in particular.

Future nurses are gaining a new perspective into the transition to long-term care/supportive living for seniors by reading Joan Barfoot’s Exit Lines, a funny, compassionate novel about people in a facility designed for seniors “with healthy incomes but varying hopes, despairs, abilities and deformities.” 

In addition, second-year nursing students have once again partnered with the YMCA Saddletowne and the Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) program to positively affect the health of area residents.

Read the full story in the April 28 edition of Utoday.