Arts and Medicine Here I Come

I will be revisiting my blog with discussions relating to the relationship of creativity to health , it's a topic I have been interested in for a long time. 

 

 

Creativity Workshop for Healthcare Providers at Baptist South

Arts and Medicine Masters Program at University of Florida

I will be using this blog for course requirements in HUM 5357 Creativity and Health .
Security settings are set to private . The topics shared will include
My Creative Practice  and Health Issues Blog.

Just something I found in my archive tonight

Journaling My Caritas Journey


Patty,

 I am inspired and expanded in my heart and mind and very being by the scope and creativity/artistry of expression and deep knowing through art and healing, living your CAritas Journey as a testimony of your inner and outer work/ inner vision to see again the beauty and art in all of living, being, human expressions. Thank you for your open heart journal/Caritas Journey. I am honored and humbled to witness your path and process. My love, gratitude and awe,

 Jean Watson

 PS. would love to see of you journey of the blog of WatsonCAringScienceInstitute.org on JOURNALING MY CARITAS JOURNEY


Dear Friends,
Please do a web search of  Dr. Jean Watson and introduce yourself to her Theory on Caring. 
Her work has been a tremendous inspiration to me and I am privileged to have studied with her. 
She is amazing!!
Patty

Flagler County Art League

Journaling My Caritas Journey
 September 14, 2013

 Thank you to the nice folks at Flagler County Art League.
 My 1st place certificate in Watercolor is most appreciated tonight.

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Art Update # 4

‎#4 and final . We have 2 excellent nurses (I want use their names without permission) at South involved in the Jean Watson Caritas Coach Education Program. A goal for all three of us, along with the hospital administration has been to create a caring room for staff. My job was to do a painting that would help decompress, if for only a brief moment ,the stress level of being an Intensive Care Nurse.The staff voted on a topic (seascape) and I painted a very large 4'x4' canvas which was hung yesterday in the Caring Room. I am so happy to be a part of this project and think so highly of this caring staff.

Art Update #3

OK #3 update, boy have I been busy. Another exhibit, the trip to Italy really inspired me. This exhibit is in the Oasis Cafe' at Baptist Medical Center South off 95 South on Old ST. Augustine Road. The exhibit is a series on Trees, doesn't Trees by Magee have a nice ring to it. Seriously, it's an exhibit of four paintings using textured medium. You will just have to come and see them. Hope you do!!!

Art update #2

I'm using Facebook to catch everyone up with what's going on with me and my art. There are 4 things currently happening in my world or art and this is #2. UPS has two of my paintings as we speak and they are on the way to Baltimore, Maryland.They will be attending the ANCC National Magnet Conference and will be exhibited in The Art of Magnet® Nursing Gallery, sponsored by Loyola University Healthcare System and UCLA Health System. The exhibit will contain works that express the deep commitment of those involved in the art and practice of nursing in a Magnet work environment.

Update on my ART #1

Dear Art Fans,

Please drop in to see my abstract art work. The exhibit is currently going on downtown Jacksonville at The Premier Gallery in The Bank of America Tower on the entrance floor just off the main lobby. The Bank of America Tower is located 50 North Laura Street the gallery hours are Tuesday-Friday 11am-3pm. Just tell Elaine you were invited by me. Many Thanks, Patty

A Sneak Preview ....... "Mountain Magic"

The above painting is a work in water color inks for Wyoming Medical Center to commemorate the International Caritas Consortium to be held October 8 and 9th, 2009.

JOURNALING MY CARITAS JOURNEY

First I would like to say I am honored that you were my guest as I documented in my Caritas Journal. My Caritas travel will not end here and I hope that you will always be a extension of it. Caritas is many things but most definitely it is about encouraging one another which is a life long commitment.

I guess you could say from early childhood I have linked Art with Nursing. I always wanted to do both, but didn't realize at that time that creativity was a therapeutic modality that could be used in Nursing. We now now that art at the bedside can reduce anxiety, decrease pain and improve the immune system. Bedside Art is implemented in many hospitals worldwide. The pilot program at Baptist Medical Center South will begin on October 14, 2009. I will develop this program using the paradigm of University of Florida at Shands, however I would like to incorporate nursing, not to complicate but to simplify the care at the bedside. Giving nurses another option for the comfort of their patients. The Caritas Journey for all Nurse's is to explore every avenue in making patent's comfortable. These avenues should not be limited to administering chemicals, but tapping into the emergence of creative opportunities.

Thank you again for allowing me to share some of my Caritas moments with you.

Connecting Art and Wellness, Patty

Journaling My Caritas Journey

September 4, 2009

Carative Factor 2
Instilling/enabling faith and hope.

Conference Call : It is now official I will begin October 14, 2009 as the Resident Artist Caritas Nurse for Baptist Medical South. A pilot program for "art at the bedside" will be initiated at that time for patients in this beautiful hospital .

Caratas Process 2 Sustaining

Connecting Art and Wellness, Patty

Journaling My Caritas Journey

Carative Factor 1 Humanistic-altruistic values

The Gregory Drive Library project is completed as we welcome in a new year of literacy opportunities to our children. Pictured above is my painting for the Library. Thank you to the other participating artist Elaine Bedell, Annelies Dykgraaf and Marsha Hatcher who's paintings will also become a permanent collection to this Library.

Caritas Process 1 Practicing loving kindness and equanimity for self and other

Connecting Art and Wellness, Patty

Journaling My Caritas Journey

A collage of photos from our painted silk scarf workshop.

Carative Factor 1 Humanistic-altruistic

These photo's were taken at Baptist Medical Center South. What more can you ask for than a workshop that requires no skills and you end up with a uniquely beautiful hand painted and signed scarf as well as the know how to make more for gifts. This particular workshop was created to honor an employee who was receiving chemotherapy. All the beautiful scarfs were gifted to her by her peers as a gesture of love and support for her as she is receiving treatment.

Caritas Process 1 Practicing loving kindness and equanimity for self and others.

Journaling My Caritas Journey

Carative Factor 8 Providing for a supportive , protective , and /or corrective mental, social, spiritual environment.

August 5, 2009

Today I drove to Flagler Beach to attend a work shop on silk painting taught by Susan Kenthack. What a perfect project to implement at the bedside. A project requiring no skills and you end up with a beautiful authentic silk scarf signed by the designing patient. The scarf dries very quickly and the patient can wrap themselves up in the healing colors with amazement that during their time of recovery they created this glorious comfort cloth. As you can tell I am very excited about this project and it's therapeutic value.
Caritas Process 8 Creating healing environment at all levels (physical, nonphysical, subtle environment of energy and consciousness whereby wholeness, beauty,comfort, dignity, and peace are potentiated( Being /Becoming the environment)





Pictured above is the scarf I painted in Susan's workshop. I have it snuggled around my Caritas Journal. There is more to come!
Connecting Art and Wellness, Patty

Journaling My Caritas Journey

My announcement below has been published , now it is time to roll up my selves and get the exhibit ready.

Weaving Art into Healthcare

Baptist Medical Center

800 Prudential Dr.

Exhibit in the Healing Art Gallery

Sept. 2-30,2009

Meet the Artist, Patty Magee, RN at 12 noon

in The Library for Healing, September 16, 2009

"Art as a Way of Caring"

Journaling My Caritas Journey

July 31, 2009

Carative Factors 3
Cultivating Sensitivity to oneself and other.

Today I visited my favorite framer Annette Conger of Finely Framed.
She completed the framing my elephant nurse. I am preparing for my "Weaving Wellness" art exhibit at Baptist Medical Center in the Library of Healing. This is part of my Caritas project. The exhibit will be from September 2-30 and my opening will be on September 16 at 12 noon in the beautiful downtown Healing Library. Annette documented the outside frame size 18" x 23" and then she ask me for the title of the drawing for her computer files. I answered "We are the ones we are waiting for" and with big presence. She gave me a curious look and asks for clarification. Idiom: "Elephant in the Room" is a problem that everyone knows about but no one talks about. I must credit Dr. Mary Rockwood Lane at University of Florida for suggesting this title for my drawing. Her thought is that we are the ones waiting for cultural and value change in Nursing . We tend to think that someone else will do it, but the world is waiting for us. She says, "stop waiting for someone else to open the door." "If you don't do it, who do you think is going to do it?"

Caritas Process 3 Cultivating one's own spiritual practices; deepening self awareness, going beyond "self ego". Dr. Jean Watson supports this vision on a international level, may we all recognize the" Elephant in the Room" as our self. Connecting Art and Wellness, Patty

Journaling My Caritas Journey

July 30, 2009
Carative Factor 6

Systematic use of scientific (creative) problem solving caring process

Do we look like we are having fun yet?

Above are hard working employee's of our Performance Improvement Department at Baptist Medical Center. Tonight together, we are winding down the work day with watercolor therapy, a Caritas candle and Enya playing in the background. Tonight's agenda was not so much about "Performance" but about loosening up more than just a paint brush stroke. We talked about the role that creativity can play to reduce stress, improve health and actually increase productivity in the work place. For us paint pushers there is sometimes a hesitation about how we apply color to our canvas. Tonight all participants were successful in breaking through that barrier. Experimentation, exploration was allowed and honored, everyone rose to the occassion.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves. Robert Frost

Caritas Process 6
Creative use of self and all ways of knowing/being /doing as part of the caring process (engaging in artistry of caring- healing practices) Connecting Art and Wellness, Patty