NSMC Nurses Hone Skills Through Art at PEM

On a bright, cold Friday morning, a handful of nurses huddle around a pair of portraits in Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum. The portraits depict Mr. and Mrs. Fitch, a pair of wealthy Salem residents of the eighteenth century. When directed to describe the pictures with adjectives, the nurses call him “stoic” and “elegant” and her “opulent” and “soft.” Then they’re told that the Fitches made their wealth in the slave trade. “Does this change your opinion of them?” asked the program leader. The nurses all nod yes. Relating this analysis to nursing, one nurse says, “You can look at and assess your patient, but you ca

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NSMC Nurses Hone Skills Through Art at PEM

This community partnership between North Shore Medical Center and the Peabody Essex Museum, Paint to Patient, is available to new nurses at NSMC.

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