The Use of Art to Develop Holistic Nurses and Clinical Judgment: An Educational Intervention

Identify and describe the student perceptions of how to use VTS as a nurse.

Appraise and describe the important conclusions that the investigators identified with this qualitative research study.

To design an educational experience to develop a more holistic approach to caring for patients for nursing students

To promote nursing students to analyze art to find meaning in their educational journey

To explore the intersection of art-based interventions and a more comprehensive and empathetic approach to developing clinical judgement and how artistic elements can enhance the holistic nursing experience

b and d

VTS has been shown to increase observational and communication skills in nursing education. The components of VTS align with the National Council for State Board of Nursing Clinical Judgment Measurement Model (NCJMM) to promote clinical judgement in a holistic care of the patient. Please choose what supports alignment of VTS with NCJMM.

Recognize and Analyze cues: What is going on in this picture?

Prioritize Hypothesis: What are you seeing?

Generate Solutions: What more can you find?

Take action: How does this apply to nursing care?

All of the above

Nurses must use astute observations to inform clinical decision making to provide safe care. Please choose the name of the technique discussed in this research used by holistic nursing educators to teach critical thinking skills, which supports effective clinical decision-making and facilitates safe care.

Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS)

Clinical Judgement Making

Critical Thinking Skills Development

Informed Decision Making

When the instructor uses the critical thinking exercise, the order of operation is significant. What is the proper order of operation?

Show the painting and ask the student to describe what they see prior to any discussion of the painting used in the exercise

Describe the painting with the students and ask them to record what they see following the discussion

Allow the students to discuss their observations of the painting within the student group and then record what they observed in the painting

Identify the name of the artist first

What was the design of the critical thinking method intended to facilitate?

The provision of holistic nursing care

Synthesis of a variety of information from various resources to inform accurate and effective decision making in a clinical setting

Facilitate culturally sensitive care to vulnerable populations

All of the above

What questions were the students asked to reflect upon when recording their observation of Frida Kahlo’s The Broken Column?

What is going on in this painting?

What are you seeing that makes you say that (substantiate your observations)?

What more can we find (after open discussion)?

Discuss any perception changes with substantiation of those additional changes

All of the above

What method of qualitative analysis was used in this research?

Braun and Clark (2006) thematic analysis

Inductive analysis

Deductive analysis

Content analysis

The research in this article took place in a sample of nurses in what level of nursing?

In their associate degree nursing program

In their BSN

In their senior year of either second degree BSN or BSN students

It made no difference when they took the critical thinking class as long as they took it

What themes were identified when the students were asked how they might use VTS in their nursing practice?

Using Visual Clues to inform care

Considering more than one answer

Asking questions to expand perceptions

All of the above

The investigators found the VTS process conducive to promoting critical thinking in the context of holistic nursing care. Choose all answers that support this finding.

Artwork lends itself to teaching concepts and the development of holistic skills.

Artwork can help students recognize patterns and insights into the complexities of caring for clients with acute problems.

Students were able to conclude that listening can inform their perspectives and were able to translate this to clinical practice in deep, meaningful ways.

Nurses must be prepared to use sound clinical judgment but are also called upon to integrate holistic care by seeing the patient as not just illness or disease, but the whole person including family, social support, societal and cultural influences and past health experiences.

All of the above