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Category: Posts About Art & Nursing

The Two Hands of Mindfulness

Late on a Friday afternoon I sat on the floor of a shared office space in semi-lotus position, dismantling the … More

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being a nurse, gratitude, healing crystals, mindfulness, nurse blogs, oncology nurse navigators, supporting nurse coworkers, survivorship care plans, work-life balance

Down The Rabbit Hole Part II

Just over a year ago I had the opportunity to show some of my paintings and speak to a live … More

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#Art&Nursing, breast cancer survivorship, goals, personal growth

SirenNation Art Show Opening

Imagine my surprise to find my painting Quickened Toward All Celestial Things has been given a street view exhibition space … More

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#Art&Nursing, #Painting #Art, ArtBar&Bistro, nurse lifestyles, Portland5, PortlandArtist, SirenNation

Book Review: Sky the Oar, Poems by Stacy R. Nigliazzo

Sky The Oar poems by Stacy R. Nigliazzo  Publisher: Press 53, 2018 Stacy R. Nigliazzo is a poet living in … More

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art and nursing, art by nurses, gifts for nurses, help for new nurses, nurses, poetry, Press 53, Stacy R. Nigliazzo

AJN Best of The Blog Features Post by JparadisiRN

It’s an honor to have my post and illustration,  A Brief Meditation on Love, Loss, and Nursing, originally published on Off the … More

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American Journal of Nursing, art and nursiing, love, nurse writers, off the charts

Down the Rabbit Hole

Why is it 2018 feels more like “2017, The Sequel,“ and not an actual New Year? While I have one or … More

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art and nursing, cancer surviviorship, down the rabbit hole, nursing process, perspectives, progress, safety

Cancer Survivorship: Breaking The Myth of “Nurses are Bad Patients”

Are nurses are the worse patients? Upon completion of treatment for breast cancer, my surgeon remarked, “You got through treatment … More

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art and nursing, breast cancer survivorship, cancer nursing, cancer surviviorship, nurses as patient advocates, oncology, oncology nurse navigator blog, When nurses are patients

Back From The Digital Future: My Return to Paper and Ink Books

My adult life I’ve had an unreasonable fear of being without a book to read. The anxiety is triggered when … More

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art and nursing, books, community, nurse lifestyles, nurse writers, patients, stranded at the airport, Tiny Lending Library

Applying Nursing Process and Knowing When to Quit

It was several more days later   before I ripped out the knitted sleeve I wrote of in my last … More

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art and nursing, being a nurse, co-dependence, knitting, nurses, nurses blog, nursing process, relationships, setting boundaries

Plateaus, New Goals, & My First Failure of 2018

2017 was a challenging year for me in many ways, some good, some not so much, but it ended positively. … More

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2018, art and nursing, getting unstuck, Intentions, knitting sweaters, New Year Goals, New Year's resolutions, plateaus, progress

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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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