Using a Digital Storytelling Assignment to Teach Public Health Advocacy

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• Personal Author:
  de Castro AB ; Levesque S
• Description:
  The need and expectation for advocacy is central to public health nursing practice. Advocacy efforts that effectively call attention to population health threats and promote the well-being of communities rely on strategies that deliver influential messaging. The digital story is a lay method to capture meaningful, impactful stories that can be used to advocate for public health concerns. Readily available, user-friendly digital technologies allow engagement in digital media production to create digital stories. This paper describes how digital story making can be utilized as an academic assignment to teach public health advocacy within an undergraduate nursing curriculum. Providing nursing students this artistic outlet can facilitate meeting academic learning goals, while also equipping them with creative skills that can be applied in future professional practice. Nursing educators can take advantage of institutional resources and campus culture to support the use of novel digital media assignments that facilitate application of advocacy concepts. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Community Health Services Education Health Personnel Health Promotion Occupational Health Public Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Advocacy Community Health Community Health Nursing Health Communications Information Dissemination Nurses Nursing Public Health Public Health Nursing Education Undergraduate Nursing Education
• ISSN:
  0737-1209
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 10 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  157-164
• Volume:
  53
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20063815
• Citation:
  Public Health Nurs 2018 Mar; 53(2):157-164
• Contact Point Address:
  A.B. de Castro, University of Washington Bothell School of Nursing & Health Studies, Bothell, WA, USA
• Email:
  butchdec@uw.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• Performing Organization:
  University of Washington
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Public Health Nursing
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/222367/cdc_222367_DS1.pdf
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