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Category: Nursing Lifestyles

Life Outside of Patient Care Areas

The Beds We Make

During the lockdown of the pandemic, like many people, I spent more than my usual amount of time at home. To entertain myself, I stopped making my bed daily for about a week. I made sketches of the bedding arrangements as the week progressed. Then I made the painting.

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Art, art and nursing, Art Exhibition, Bed Making, juliannaparadisiart, nursing, Painting of Bed, patient care, Posts about Art

A Nurse and a Pharmacist Go On a Date That Resulted In Better Patient Care

“So, let me get this straight. If you have a cardiac event, or stop breathing, I can start CPR on you and potentially save your life, but if I go down, all you can do is call 911 and cry?”

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art and nursing, CPR, nurse blogs, nurse lifestyles, nurses, PALS, patient care, patient safety, Pediatric Codes, pharmacists

The Role of Artists, Here and Now

It’s going to take time for society to recover from the pandemic. Not only its residual effects on the economy and its toll on personal lives, but already we’re seeing the results of profound change.

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art and nursing, Artists as Advocates, Artists in Society, changemakers, nurse blogs, The Oregon Coast Bar, the Wreckage of the Peter Iredale

No Leaders Please

“invent yourself and then reinvent 

yourself.

don’t swim in the same slough.”

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Art, art and nursing, artist blogs, artists and healthcare, Charles Bukowski, No Leaders Please, nurse artist, poetry, Retired Nurses, retirement, RN blogs, Transformation

Reflections of A Nurse-Mother

“Yeah, I’m taking classes to become a massage therapist. My mom is a nurse, and I’ve always been interested in health sciences because of that. I want to help people enhance their health.”

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nurse blogs, nurse lifestyles, pediatric intensive care nursing, Pediatric intensive-care unit, pediatric nursing

After The Smoke Clears: Re-Acquainting with an Old Friend

Yesterday was the first of of nine that our air quality in Portland, Oregon fell from “hazardous” to “good,” and … More

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#ArtandNursing, #NatureJournal, art by nurses, Portland art, Portland artist

The Resilience of Tiny Things: Raising Young Children in The Pandemic

Our hazardous air quality in Oregon keeps me from nature journaling outdoors. Instead, I make ink and watercolor paintings in … More

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#Art&Nursing, @julparart, Anna's Hummingbirds, COVID-19 pandemic, nature journal, pediatric intensive care nursing, resilience, shared experiences

Learning: The Best Thing for Sadness, Part II

    Previously, I wrote about learning as a tool for managing the sadness accompanying home isolation and the losses … More

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#Art&Nursing, @julparart, art and health, COVID-19 pandemic, life long learner, Oregon wildfires, sumi-e brush painting

Julianna Paradisi Paintings in New Member Show at Gallery 114 During September

I’m excited to participate in Overlaid: New Members Show during the month of September at Gallery 114, in Portland, Oregon. Here’s … More

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@julparart, contemporary art, juliannaparadisiart, Oregon, Portland, Portland Art Galleries, Resin paintings

Birds, Faith and Troubled Times

  Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings. … More

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#Painting #Art, @julparart, art and nursing, birdwatching, John Lewis quote, nature journal, watercolor art

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Unknown's avatarJParadisiRN is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus in painting and writing. Her paintings and short stories have been published nationally. She has exhibited artwork in galleries throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Julianna was a frequent contributor of illustrated blog posts to Off The Charts, the blog of the American Journal of Nursing. She has been a nurse for 33 years, specializing in Pediatric Intensive Care, Oncology Infusion, and as an Oncology Nurse Navigator.

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