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Eileen MSN, RN


Artists, inventors have a connection Nursing was both art and science to Florence Nightingale


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his is our National Nurses Week issue, our most celebrated of the year, and in it we continue our artist and inventor theme. We’ve all heard discussions on the diff erence between the art and science of nursing. We generally think of data and the statistical, evidence-based research parts of nursing as the science; the personal, physical, caring parts we consider the art. But are they really that separate and distinct, or are we in fact practicing artfully and scientifi cally at the same time? For many nurses, that seems to be the case. All across the nation, in all areas


of practice nurses are integrating various art forms into their care because they understand that the art of nursing blends perfectly with its science. They see the connection between the two and understand that use of the arts in care — whether music, painting, dancing or inventing — has healing eff ects. They know certain outcomes can be achieved; outcomes such as patients needing less pain medication, staff stress levels being reduced or lengths of stay being shortened. They see hospitals and medical centers instituting the arts into their healthcare programs, and they’re interested in implementing them into their practice. In this year’s issues of Nurse.com we are highlighting nurse artists and inventors.


In our January/February issue we focused on a nurse using her artistic talents to create paintings depicting the relationship between body and spirit. She then donates them to hospitals and other healthcare facilities to create beautiful, spiritual, healing environments for patients and staff . Our March/April issue highlighted a NICU nurse who is perfecting a tool to help measure pain in preemies. He uses a glass “Orb” device with a computer chip that interprets infant pain signals and changes colors in response to them. One artist, one inventor — two nurses who use their creativity and nursing know-how to join art with science to make a diff erence in the lives of their patients. And they have. Our cover stories for the remainder of the year will continue to salute nurses


who are using their nursing knowledge and expertise, as well as their artistic talents, business acumen and inquisitive minds to help others — because that’s what nurses do. This issue’s cover story introduces you to a creative nurse who produced a fun


video during National Nurses Week last year to boost the morale of the team. In the process, she helped heal the minds and hearts of young patients who were fi ghting cancer and blood disorders. You’ll read all about their beautiful team eff ort and how they used fi lm, dance and the special music of Rachel Platten’s “Fight Song” to make it all happen. It’s the perfect story to tell you in this issue, and we hope you’ll enjoy it. Please plan to celebrate this wonderful profession of ours and all that you


and your colleagues bring to your roles and your patients each day. We are publishing this issue during National Nurses Week 2016, which runs this year from Friday, May 6, to Thursday, May 12, and we hope you will do something special in recognition of the occasion. Find a way to honor one another; join in the celebrations at your workplace; thank your colleagues for how much it means to work with them. And put some time aside to think about what a great profession you’ve chosen. Happy National Nurses Week! •


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