Nurses and allies harnessing the arts to deliver the sustainable development goals Marion Lynch, editor

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lynch, Marion, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nursing--Practice.

Nursing.

Arts--Therapeutic use.

Arts.

Health promotion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland Springer [2026]

Summary:

"This comprehensive guide aims at Harnessing the Arts to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in Clinical Practice, Health Promotion, Professional Education, and National Policy Making. In a world grappling to manage the complexities of the challenges to population and planetary health, this pioneering publication emphasises the skills needed for creativity, the arts as well as science, to address 21st-century wellbeing. It presents educational content and global examples of nurses, the most trusted, most connected, and mostly female profession being innovative change makers, using the arts in their practice and delivering all of the United National 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The science of nursing is evident in the visible actions and viable evidence used to support and sustain practice. But what of the art of nursing? The invisible actions that create the space and pace of care, that control the communication and commitments and so the trust between people, that maintain the Caritas and the connections even when the people are gone. Whether at a personal level, when people are unable to articulate what the nurse did, ‘they were just there’, at the professional level when the debate is about undoing task based nursing, hierarchical power and gendered inequalities and assumptions, or at a structural level where health is a right for some and a privilege for others, the science does not give us all the answers. The arts can and are helping in a way that brings different ways of knowing into health, and into nursing, and into the way we all need to unite to deliver the sustainable development goals. This book aims at empowering nurses to integrate the arts into their practice and deliver all of the SDGs; It is a true transformative education book using case studies from across the world"-- Springer Nature Link

Contents:

How nursing and the arts can deliver the SDGs and shape a healthier world / Marion Lynch

Flourishing futures : Nurses, artists, and allies for the SDG era 2030 and beyond / Marion Lynch

From tides to treaties : Art, nursing, and the radical imagination for a sustainable future / Marion Lynch

Beauty and biology : Neuroarts and how the arts affect the brain / Marion Lynch

How arts and creativity shape health strategy in England : A collective overview from National Centre for Creative Health Associates / Elaine McNeill and Jane Hearst

Policymaking in arts and health / Jemma Channing

Orchestras Live : Measuring social return on investment, how to measure benefit, prove impact, and deliver the SDGs / Cimeon Ellerton-Kay and Becky West

Perspectives from the third sector (charities) : Using arts and creativity to create social value in drug and alcohol, mental health and learning disability services / Gemma Bruce

Perspectives from professor of nursing : How and why we have built the arts into nursing education, and the impact this has / Vicky Ridgway

Embracing our creative roots : Looking back to move forward / Justine Robinson

The arts as a psychotherapeutic tool : Dramatherapy / Eleanor Keiller

Being an artist in the NHS / Tom Cox

An actor nurse perspective : Linking arts training into nursing practice / Charlotte Hall

A learner’s perspective : How and why do arts help us learn to work in health? / Gayathri Thivyaa Gangatharan

SHIFT : Co-creating a play making the mental health nurses invisible skills visible / Marion Lynch and Gaye Poole

Belonging and purpose through music : Sharing the love with social enterprise / Laura Atyeo

A play and so much more / Lesley Goodburn

The last sound we heard : BlackBird / Justine Robinson

The solace of seventeen syllables : Haiku and creative expression in palliative care / Beth Molyneux

Parklands : A story of persistence and how the arts help us to stay afloat in the same boat / Maggie Bennett and Donna White

Seeking asylum and seeing art / Jemma Channing

Nurses using songwriting and daytime television to influence climate action / Angela Hayes

Gamification, My Five Moments, Compassion : Revolutionizing hand hygiene education globally / Claire Kilpatrick, Karen (Kat) Schrier, Ermira Tartari, and Jules Storr

The story of Human Story Theatre / Marion Lynch, Amy Enticknap, and Gaye Poole

Telling the future : Radical imagination, questions to ask, answers to find / Marion Lynch

Notes:

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Springer Nature Link, viewed September 3, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Nurses and allies harnessing the arts to deliver the sustainable development goals

ISBN:

9783032294661

3032294665

OCLC:

1612971308

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license