Table 2 Themes of narrative writing

Patient and self

Help nursing students tell patients’ stories and understand patients’ feelings.

Please write down a patient experience that has impressed you

Please write down a warm moment of interaction with your patient

Please write down your understanding of the background of the patient’s illness

Please write down the moment of your emotional disclosure

Medical staff and patient

Help nursing students to feel the relationship between medical staff and patients as an observer

Please write down your most rewarding moment

Please write down what you think is a good doctor-patient relationship

Please write down the humanistic behaviors you see in the medical staff

Medical staff and self

To help nursing students enhance their professional understanding through contact with medical staff

Write down the qualities or behaviors of the people you admire most in the clinical staff

Please write about your caring moments with the medical staff

Please write about what you know about this medical career or what actions have influenced your view of the profession with a new perspective.