StoryAid: Nursing Students' Relational Learning for Adolescents with Intellectual Learning Disabilities

Background: Nursing students express fears and anxi-eties about caring for people with intellectual learning dis-abilities (ILDs). Educational storytelling interventions may help overcome these concerns and improve nursing care. Method: StoryAid was used and developed in the Heritage-2Health (H2H) Virtual Art and Drama Project. Eight online ses-sions followed a story about differences and connections. Two trained facilitators and three academic educators supported nursing students (n = 15), adolescents with ILDs (n = 7), their par-ents (n = 7), and a specialist teacher to deconstruct, reconnect, and rediscover understandings using rights-based ethnograph-ic evaluation and thematic analysis. Results: Themes included relating to the story and characters, participating in the story-telling process, relating to other participants in the storytelling, and relating learning to clinical contexts and professionalism. Conclusion:The partnership of StoryAid and H2H created safe spaces for nursing students to engage, challenge assumptions, and develop relational skills. [J Nurs Educ. 2023;62(1):51-57.]