H817: Blue Group project
Using Digital Storytelling to exlore social/cultural/ethical dilemmas
Brief: Choose either a professional domain, or a school subject, where learners need to develop their awareness of social, cultural or ethical issues and make informed and considered judgements. Can digital storytelling provide an effective educational tool? Describe a particular context and an educational challenge in this context.
Project title
Digital Storytelling for healthcare Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Why we tell stories, bgblogging, https://flic.kr/p/aSkdnc, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Overview
Our project proposes the creation and use of digital storytelling resources as a hospital staff Continuing Professional Development (CPD) tool to illustrate the experiences of prisoner patients using medical facilities and services when visiting hospitals for their ongoing diabetes/kidney dialysis/pregnancy treatment. The purpose is to draw attention to ethical, social, and cultural issues surrounding the care and treatment of prisoner patients and therefore potentially have a positive impact on hospital staff professional practice.
See Prisoners in Healthcare Facts, Figures and quotes in our Research section, our definition and use of Digital Storytelling, the Context and the Design Challenge for further information.
“… and they struggle to find a place for me to wait, and what happened is they found like a broom cupboard where I had to wait, which is definitely degrading, I am valued less than a normal person.” (prisoner patient)
“… especially the female side of things, when you go out on escorts you go out with one male and one female, I don’t want them hearing that, I really don’t want to be discussing my lady stuff in front of male members of staff … it leaves you feeling like you’ve wasted a doctor’s appointment because you haven’t said everything you need to say.” (prisoner patient)
“… when a doctor says hello to you before the prison officers, those little things make a big difference because it gives you confidence the person actually knows what they’re doing and the person is treating you as a patient.” (prisoner patient)
“they should be addressing you and not the officers” (prisoner patient)
(Quotes from Prison Health Animation - UCL's Collaborative Centre for Inclusion Health, https://youtu.be/_IDag_RFus8)
Image attribution:
Sweeping with Broom, Pixabay, Creative Commons CC-0
Hello, Mohamed Hassan, Pxhere, Creative Commons CC-0
Women's health icon, Kaldari, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Talk sign, Eugenio Hansen, OFS, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
“It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.” Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (n.d) The Nelson Mandela Rules, The United Nations Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners. Available at https://www.unodc.org/documents/justice-and-prison-reform/16-05081_E_rollup_Ebook.pdf (accessed 12 June 2021)
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