Week 5 Creative Practice

Cultural Diversity 

My earliest memories of being different regarding my cultural background take me back to my child hood. I was every bit of ten years old and so excited to go on a family vacation. It was actually a reunion of my father’s WWII infantry division held in Miami Beach in a fancy hotel.  Coming from a rural background this is how I viewed it; yes they even had a swimming pool which I was dying to get in. Total ecstasy consumed me as I swam around in my black and white checked two piece bathing suite with a pleated white skirt attached.  Making friends with two girls from the North, I was anxious to talk about the kind of things ten year old girls talk about. We started to communicate and they noticed my very southern accent and began to mock me and made fun. Suddenly my dream vacation came to an end, I didn’t know what to do or say.  That was my very first exposure to cultural differences but obviously it made a big impression because I never forgot it. 

By the time I finish with my collage it will extremely DIVERSE

as I continue to add  on my renderings weekly.

Promoting Health Equity and Patient Centered Care

Week 4 Creative Practice

Hospitals take away a person’s power.  How dehumanizing to be restricted of every little thing we take for granted , when or if we eat or drink wearing an arm band with a medical record number on it and maybe even a bar code to be scanned  before medicine administration. Having our backside exposed from the opening gap in the back.  Wellness comes at a price we are all willing to pay, but when adding the component of Art in Medicine it sweetens up the deal with a touch of humanity.

This is the beginning of  my background 16" x 20" canvas covered with acrylic paint and pieces of watercolor paper glued on with Mod Podge. This will be the resting place for all my creative collage entries, I have already put several layers on it and my grandchildren seem to be impressed. Any time I  gain their pre teenage attention, I am feeling pretty good about what's being creating.

The power of vulnerability. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability

My doodles while waiting for my husband to have a medical procedure, soon to be introduced to my growing collage.

By the way, I brought my own art supplies as I did not find any in the waiting room. Hint Hint

Week 3 Creative Practice Blog

 
          Self Care is a phrase that needs to be poured into the caretaker. Yes we need to sing out those high cortisol levels and embraced the things we can’t do as Phil Hansen so appropriately illlustrated on his TED presentation. Little Oscar’s sign in “ Osar in the Pink Lady”, read “only God can Wake me Up” after listening to the conversation of the Artist in Residence dialogue some of the approaches might be just the very thing that God may used to wake up patients so they are more connected to their feelings an can promote greater healing experiences.
         It is so important that we ground ourselves before we enter a room to visit a patient for that time is about them and their
self-awareness. Knowing the practice in this work is to decrease so that the patient may increase.

            Choir Study,Kreutz, 2004 Effects of Choir Singing or Listening

on Secretory Immunoglobulin A,Cortisol, and Emotional State Gunter Kreutz,1,3 Stephan Bongard,2 Sonja Rohrmann,2Volker Hodapp,2 and Dorothee Grebe1

November 11, 2003

Jenny Lee Album an Interview with Artist in Residence Shands Hospital Arts in Medicine Program.

            Schmitt, Eric_Emmanuel,Oscar and the Pink Lady,2003, New York Press       

http://www.ted.com/talks/phil_hansen_embrace_the_shake#t-589367

Week 2 Creatice Practice

Week 2 Creative Practice Document Post

Infection Control

Hand hygiene is the most important intervention for preventing Hospital Acquired Infections. The Center for Transforming Healthcare has many ideas for solutions available to remind caregivers the necessity of remembering to wash hands before and after seeing a patient. Practicing this behavior daily for a month can lead to the development of a habit. To prevent the spread of infectious disease in the hospital environment this is a habit that we owe our patients and self to form. 

Patient Safety

Lightness to dark can come quickly when addressing the safety of patient. It is so vitally important. There were no new National Patient Safety Goals For 2015, however, NPSG.15.02.01 on home oxygen safety has been modified for the home care accreditation program, and some minor language changes were made to NPSG.03.04.01 on labeling medications for the hospital, critical access hospital, ambulatory and office-based surgery accreditation programs as reported from Joint Commission standards.

HIPAA

 Privacy Rule provides federal protections for individually identifiable health information held by covered entities and their business associates and gives patients an array of rights with respect to that information. At the same time, the Privacy Rule is balanced so that it permits the disclosure of health information needed for patient care and other important purposes. The Security Rule specifies a series of administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for covered entities and their business associates to use to assure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic protected health information.

 http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/index.html

 http://www.jointcommission.org/standards_information/npsgs.aspx     http://www.jointcommission.org/topics/hai_hand_hygiene.aspx

HIPAA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

                                       

Week 1 Creative Practice

Week 1 Creative Practice Blog
Arts in Medicine in Practice

Each week I will be incorporating design elements in my creative practice to reflect on the integration of course studies for the current assignment.  My weekly practice will be creating an abstract display using design and text. When all segments are finished I will join the shapes to form a mandala as a focal point of my mixed media collage on canvas.  I will also incorporate text by selecting my favorite concepts from the content of our weekly assignments.  At the conclusion of the project it is my hope to group the abstract symbols forming a whole mandala.  I will assemble it into a mixed media collage canvas with design symbols and memorable text prompts.  I hope it comes out pleasing; I’d like to hang it in my office. Please don’t judge me until the end; the finished piece is in my head. 

The three take home phrases for me during week one are the following Healing Environments, Caring Spaces and the Power of Art. We are creatures of our surroundings; I saw a documentary last night on PBS about John Denver. He is an excellent example of using his environment to stimulate his creativity. Colorado was definitely his muse and to be able to find that sacred place as an individual has got to be a purpose filled life. Happy adventures all!

In reflection to Week 1 Studies one of the points that had significance on me was that according to Gary Christenson, M.D. when a hospital incorporates the arts it can save money and improve the patient experience. Spaces are crucial/imperative in order to come to terms with emotionally stressing experiences from daily work, and in order to be prepared for future challenges, such as new tasks or patients with a complex diagnosis.(Liveng, Anne, 2010)

With the baby boomers coming into focus “We face an impending crisis as the growing number of older patients, who are living longer with more complex health needs, increasingly outpaces the number of healthcare providers with the knowledge and skills to care for them capably” (Rowe, 2008, p. 9).

The growth of evidence-based design in our hospital systems promotes benefits in both physical and mental health for patients and visitors. There is something about the concept of Evidence Based Practice or scientific proof that makes our topic appropriate for consideration in the clinical environment when other entities have known this all along. Ester Sternberg’s was extremely interesting in her audio “The Science of Healing Palaces”.

Sacred Spaces at Baptist Health, an organization that strives to provide a unique sanctuary for our most honored staff “the caretakers”. We all reach a point that we need to withdraw for a moment to strengthen our presence with patients

Julia Cameron claims “Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing”. The art piece entitled "Walking into Joy" is guided by reflective light source and is ever changing in its appearance. Created by the internationally renowned artist Stephen Knapp and provides color excitement for both visitors and patients “The first symptom a patient is better is when contemplating spaces”. (Sternberg 2013)

Christenson, G. (2011). Why We Need the Arts in Medicine. Retrieved March 3, 2015, from http://www.minnesotamedicine.com/Past-Issues/Past-Issues-2011/July-2011/Why-We-Need-the-Arts-in-Medicine (Links to an external site.)

Esther Sternberg - The Science of Healing Places. (2013, October 24). Retrieved March 3, 2015, from http://www.onbeing.org/program/the-science-of-healing-places/4856 (Links to an external site.) 

Sadler, B and Ridenour, A. (2009). Transforming the Healthcare Experience Through the Arts.

California, Aesthetics, Inc.

 Liveng, Anne. (2010). Learning and Recognition in Health and Care Work: An Inter-Subjective Perspective. Journal of Workplace Learning, Vol. 22(Iss: 1/2), pp.41–52.

State of the Field Committee. (2009). State of the field report: Arts in healthcare 2009.Washington, DC: Society for the Arts in Healthcare. 

White M. Arts development in community health: a social tonic. Radcliffe, Oxford, UK. 2009:24.