Intuition and visual art: student nurses' projection into experiences of elderly women.

The aim of the present study was to determine the degree to which student nurses in Sweden were able to predict responses of elderly women to 12 paintings. The result showed that the students were able to enter into situations and experiences of the elderly women. They used intuitive knowing-they were emotionally involved and used cognitive knowing during the prediction process. It could be concluded that nurse educators concerned with finding new directions to develop intuition skills might consider visual art of considerable value.