The nature of the CPD activity was creative arts therapy. I have learnt from this week’s activities that innovative treatment uses art forms, such as dance, drawing, music, or visual art, to treat specific conditions. The function of the arts in the community highlights the ability of the arts to transform lives and support new modes of working and learning. The activities was online (zoom meeting) with over 100 student participating. I will say this is my first time having a zoom meeting with over 100 student with their cameras on. There were health care professionals coming from various background to explain the different types of creative art therapy that are available in our health care settings.
Creative arts therapists are typically specialised practitioners who have received training in a particular form of creative arts therapy. Qualified professionals can direct innovative treatment to assist people with mental, emotional, and physical difficulties. Movement, for instance, can be a potent form of expressing oneself by connecting with the body’s built-in knowledge and recovery potential. Movement can alleviate a patient’s anxiety and is a powerful instrument for self-regulation. Additionally, music can be used in mental health facilities, with patients suffering from mental health disorders, depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and in palliative care. Music can alleviate pain and enhance the well-being of patients. Furthermore, drama therapy is a friendly, risk-free approach to exploring these roles. This drama therapy activity allows patients to examine things they don’t like, roles they hope to play in the future and roles they’d like to expand in the present. In interventions designed to improve consciousness of oneself, one’s identity, and connections. Dance, art, drama, and music therapists evaluate their patients’ psychological health, physical health, social functioning, communication skills, and cognitive capacities. Based on their assessed requirements, they use imagery art, dance performance, drama sessions, and music improvisation for individuals and groups. Therapists are crucial members of the healthcare staff.
As a student nurse, I must establish rapport with patients to earn their trust. Using any form of creative therapy will help a healthy therapeutic relationship. The art of nursing has been defined as the nurse’s capacity for compassion, care, and communication. These behaviours will enable me to interact with patients personally, an essential skill for providing quality patient-centred care that patients and their families will value. Watching the video and the power points from Moodle, I have realised the power of music in nursing, especially with patients with dementia, cognitive impairment and palliative care. As a student nurse, supporting patients and allowing them to have the opportunity to be heard concerning their care (person-centred), helping to recognise the expression as a step towards health through minimising loneliness and validating feelings and experiences is essential to their healing. Through responding to and discussing creative works that convey meaning about the felt experience of distress and illness, this course helps nursing students gain insight into the emotional aspects of ailing health.
Caring consists of upholding the humanistic values of trust, building relationships, preserving hope, and acknowledging the significance of spiritual, physical, and mental support. Linking creative acts to the Code entails the distinctive duty of nurses to be physically and mentally present constantly, allowing them to develop compassionate, effective patient relationships. As an art form, communication incorporates both verbal and nonverbal interaction, as well as attentive listening. To give optimal patient care, nurses employ valuable and practical communication skills. One of the competencies encourages nurses to build partnerships and therapeutic relationships through safe, effective and non-discriminatory communication. Nurses must always consider individual differences, abilities and requirements. Under 3.1-, all nurses must use therapeutic principles to establish, maintain, and, when necessary, terminate professional, caring relationships and always respect professional boundaries.