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Kia Ora from Aotearoa/New Zealand

I am a nurse educator who has been exploring the health care world with students using arts and humanties based educational approaches.

My research partner, artist Catharine Salmon, and I have been investigating the use of arts based pedagological approaches to stimulate compassionate client centred interprofessional care. We are also intrigued in the concepts of 'noticing' and facilitating resilence in health care professional by facilitating them to 'play in the gutters' between their practice.

Recent presented work :

Australasian Nurse Educators Conference: Co- creating the future; Auckland New Zealand, November 2015 - 'Arts and Nursing - the stimulation of compassionate awareness.

This presentation is the product of a series of critical conversations held by Catharine Salmon (artist) and Helen Childs ( nurse educator), in which they came to terms with each others 'practice' world, areas of commonality and collaborative potential to enhance the education of nursing students. A collection of images from Catharine's work that explored the lived experience of breast cancer, are proposed as a pedagogical method to develop epistomological and ontological growth in students. This presentation is deeply personal and moving.

New Zealand Interprofessional Health Conference: Advancing the dialogue, promoting partnerships; Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand July 2016 - Educating a collaborative ready workforce; students and health professionals: 'The Arts and health education'.