Helping the person experiencing cancer, or caring for a loved one
with cancer, requires the health care professional to stop, look, listen and
reflect. Taking time to hear the story facilitates the beginning of a
partnership in modeling patient centered care. Health care professionals have
the opportunity to advocate such an approach to novice undergraduate students who
undertake their clinical placements in different health care contexts. The role
modeling however, begins with educators in the tertiary sector considering innovative
teaching approaches to provide nursing students with learning experiences that
enable them to consider the patient’s story. In 2010 Professor Kerry Reid-Searl
pioneered an innovative simulation technique in the undergraduate nursing
program at CQUniversity which would see students appreciating this concept from
a first year first term level. The following presentation will showcase the simulation technique
followed by an explanation of the pedagogy. The presentation will also provide
evidence as to the success of the technique. Most importantly however, the
audience will experience a simulation approach which will enable the audience
to gain an insight to the person as a whole and learn to appreciate the value of
stopping, looking, listening and reflecting.