Roberta Jackson and Zeeyaan Somani listen to MJ Calungcaguin's thoughts on the novel Exit Lines.
April 28, 2015
How fiction and the community pool is helping nursing students
Second-year nursing students dissect a novel about seniors in assisted-living facility and once again, partner with the YMCA Saddletowne and LINC program.
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.
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