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Stress Reduction for Nurses Through Arts-in-Medicine at the University of New Mexico Hospitals.

Repar PA, Patton D

From the Department of Music and Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (Ms Repar). Mr Patton is a medical student at the School of Medicine, University of New Mexico.

Artists-in-medicine at the University of New Mexico help nurses remember and renew the values that originally attracted them to the field of nursing. Exploring their nascent creativity through massage, yoga, art, music, and writing, nurses are encouraged to reconnect emotionally and spiritually with themselves, their patients, and fellow healthcare workers.

Published 13 July 2007 in Holist Nurs Pract, 21(4): 182-6.
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