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Downtown Newark Mural. Creative Arts Healthcare. Engaging the inner self to express and transform. Because within each patient is a person. The Two Fridas ~ Frida Khalo. Creative Arts Healthcare Recognizes, Values, and Honors Our Inner and Outer Life.
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Creative Arts Healthcare Engaging the inner self to express and transform
Creative Arts Healthcare Recognizes, Values, and HonorsOur Inner and Outer Life * The Person who is the patient and their family * The Personhood of the healthcare provider * Breaks through despair and isolation * Forges bonds of shared humanity * Unites Bodies, Minds, Spirits * Joins Right Brain with Left Brain * Allows for Experiencing and Witnessing * Promotes Creativity as a Healing Resource
Creative Arts Healthcare Supports and Promotes • Patient Satisfaction • Family Satisfaction • Staff Recruitment and Retention • Compassion Fatigue/Burn Out Prevention • Enhanced Community Relations • Multicultural Awareness and Sensitivity • Medical Care, Treatment, and Emotional Healing • Humanism in Medical Practice
Creative Arts Healthcare • Monthly Grand Rounds • Creative Artists in Residence Events • Music Listening Program for Patients • PALM Room Artist Facilitators • Creative Arts Healthcare Program in Residence • Arts in Medicine Health Initiative SIG • Expressive Arts Workshops • Deeply touching the lives of patients, family members, nurses, doctors, other health care providers, students, and also members of the Newark Community
The PALM Program(Planned Activity Less Medication) • University Hospital created a program that provides a safe environment for patients experiencing difficulty in resuming independent functioning, isolation /loneliness and impediments to communicating /expressing oneself. • Goals: reorient patients, improve self care ability, improve with communication and express oneself, cope with illness/recovery & enhance socialization/group experience
Creative Arts Healthcare PALM Program Initiatives • Certified ceramicist to conduct sessions • Artists from the Wellness, Arts, Enrichment (WAE) Center (an alternative learning center for people with disabilities) are conducting three-hour session three times a week with patients • Music therapist in residence • CD Pharmacy • RN training in Creative Arts