J. Paradisi RN, OCN   finds inspiration where science, humanity, and art converge, creating compelling images. She is a visual artist, and a writer. She studied art at Pacific Northwest College of Art.

A nurse for twenty-five years, she has worked in Pediatric Intensive Care and Neonatal Intensive Care  in Level I Trauma centers and level III Neonatal units in California and Oregon.  She currently works in Adult Oncology. She writes about art, creativity and nursing as The Creative Nurse, a blog for the online oncology nursing community, TheONC.

Julianna’s painting Love You to Death is  on the cover of the October 2009 issue of the American Journal of Nursing. Her blog was recognized by the AJN blog, Off the Charts in the April 24, 2009 post: The Triple Talents of Some Nurse Bloggers by Sylvia Foley:

If you read Julianna Paradisi’s blog, you probably know that she’s been a pediatric intensive care nurse and now works as an adult oncology nurse. She’s also an accomplished painter with numerous group and solo shows to her credit. (I’m especially partial to the Greetings from Slabtown series, which depicts decaying buildings from an industrial area in Portland, Oregon.) She blogs about health care and art, and sometimes, on how these intersect. In On Art and IV’s Part I she tells us, “I have an affinity for privacy,” then considers the difference between charting and writing; in Part II, she writes about bringing focus and conviction to bear in one’s work.

And in her May 2010 post, The Manifold Talents of Nurses who are Artists, Sylvia writes:

As the coordinator of AJN’s Art of Nursing department, I’m intrigued by intersections between the two fields: Art and Nursing. About a year ago I profiled several multitalented nurses (The Triple Talents of Some Nurse Bloggers), including Julianna Paradisi, an RN, artist, and writer who blogs about “where science, humanity, and art converge” at JParadisi RN’s Blog. (Her painting Love You to Death appeared on our October 2009 cover.) In March Paradisi launched a second blog, Die Krankenschwester, which emphasizes images. One series depicts rituals followed “From Cradle to Grave”; another considers the iconography of call lights. Paradisi’s work is beautiful and thought-provoking; stop by and have a look.

Besides writing about nursing, she writes about art. Her latest blog

Die Krankenschwester

presents a developing body of visual art exploring identity in a blog format.

Julianna is a contributor of essays and artwork to The American Journal of Nursing, and the AJN blog, Off the Charts.

Kaplan Publishing included two stories by Julianna in the anthology New Lives: Nurses’ Stories about Caring for Babies, edited by Kathleen Huggins, released nationally in May 2009.

Julianna has exhibited artwork in galleries in Oregon and Washington, Her website,

juliannaparadisi.com

showcases her work as a visual artist.