Deadline: March 18, 2020
The Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest asks nursing students to engage in a reflective writing exercise that illustrates an experience where they or a team member worked to ensure that humanism was at the core of care. First-, second-, and third-place essays for nursing students will be chosen by a panel including health care professionals, writers/journalists, and educators.
This year’s essay prompt is a quote from Jordan J. Cohen Humanism in Medicine lecturer and critically acclaimed author Dr. Rana Awdish: “Medicine cannot heal in a vacuum; it requires connection.”
Students are asked to use this quote as inspiration to reflect on when they’ve experienced or observed, as an individual or as a team (doctors, nurses, therapists, etc.), the impact of human connection.
Up to three nursing students receive a monetary award of $1,000 for 1st, $500 for 2nd, and $250 for 3rd place, and their essays will be published in Academic Medicine, the journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, and The Journal of Professional Nursing, of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.