Nurstory: Real stories, found by nurses, edited by nurses, told by nurses.
Select and watch stories from the various playlists below.
Watch one of the stories from our work with the Center for Social Justice and Nursing at UMass, Amherst and see why knowing someone's name can be a radical act.
Content Advisory: This story addresses the topic of child death.
A story about the death of a niece, the death of 15 babies a day, and one woman's journey to change what she can.
Content Advisory: This story addresses the topic of children witnessing extreme violence in the home.
A boy, a homicide, and a forensic nurse whose parents still hold hands.
A premature baby, a touch that didn't happen, and a nurse thinking back to what went wrong.
A story about a nurse, a researcher on palliative care and a wife whose work becomes personal, very personal.
A premature baby, a touch that didn't happen, and a nurse thinking back to what went wrong.
A story about an air medical flight chaplain, those she serves and holding their stories.
You've seen stories that come out of the process, now get a rare look into how the process itself and what happens when nurses listen to each other helps to shape those stories. From a workshop with the International Association of Forensic Nurses
Content Advisory: This story addresses the topic of children witnessing extreme violence in the home.
A boy, a homicide, and a forensic nurse whose parents still hold hands.
Watch one of the stories from our work with the Center for Social Justice and Nursing at UMass, Amherst and see why knowing someone's name can be a radical act.
Content Advisory: This story addresses the topic of child death.
A story about the death of a niece, the death of 15 babies a day, and one woman's journey to change what she can.
A story by a nurse about returning to the patient side of healthcare when her husband was sick, and how she came to believe in the caring side of nursing as opposed to just her technical acumen.
A story by a nurse educator about how the death of her brother, who lived with schizophrenia, taught her something about how to listen.
A story by a nurse about being on the other side once her mom becomes ill, and how that opened up a new perspective for her.
A story by a nurse about being on the other side once her mom becomes ill, and how that opened up a new perspective for her.
A story by a nurse about working with a young patient with a terminal diagnosis who wanted to die with dignity.
A story by a nurse about going to Cuba and getting a new perspective on how, at the core of nursing, is activism.
A story by a nurse about her sick father, a WWII vet, and how she came to understand the deeper meaning of why he wouldn't stop smoking when he had emphysema . . . and how this affected how she saw all patients and their behaviors.
A story by a nurse about remembering a seminal moment when she was a new nurse and failed a patient.
A story by a psych nurse about taking the extra step for her patient and what it means to cross break protocol . . . and why.
A story about an NFP nurse's client who was making an adoption plan for her baby, the nurse's own losses, and the varied definitions of motherhood.
A story about a new NFP nurse's self preservation, helping to preserve the health of a new mother, and how a call to Child Protective Services actually saved a family.
A story about being a new NFP nurse, trying to make a difference, and one particular client whose trauma challenged her on a personal level.
A story about a new mom whom almost everyone had given up on, being her nurse, and showing up.
A story about being a mother, a nurse, and advocating for new mothers with disabilities whose children are taken from them.
A story about how an NFP nurse went from doing end-of-life care to beginning-of-life care, and why.
A story about an NFP nurse, her son, and explaining to him why she does the work she does.
A story about a nurse and deep listening, to a client, to her own family history, in the service of caring.
Documentaries about the Nurstory process
You've seen stories that come out of the process, now get a rare look into how the process itself and what happens when nurses listen to each other helps to shape those stories. From a workshop with the International Association of Forensic Nurses
Nurstory - the Documentary captures the impact that the innovative digital storytelling program for nurses can have on participants in the process. This short-form documentary follows nurses from the Nurse-Family Partnership, an organization that empowers first-time moms to transform their lives and create better futures for themselves and their babies, as they participated in one of Nurstory's digital storytelling workshops.
Nurstory partnered with the UW’s Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences to offer a digital storytelling workshop for nurses who were experiencing the effects of aging in the workplace.
“I have made it ‘back to life’ thanks to this story telling experience. It allowed me to talk about my crash openly. Something I simply couldn’t do before. Further it allowed me some much needed healing and the ability to take the ‘next step’ in going on.. and go on, I have... I am indebted.”