Visual Arts and Chronic Pain: Thematic Analysis to the Artistic Statements of Visual Artists

The relief of pain is an essential element of nursing practice. Nursing has begun to successfully use art to assess and reduce pain among hospitalized children, surgical patients, and oncology patients. Structured art projects have been used to provide distraction from pain and patient drawings have...

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Main Author: Janicke, Susan Beth
Language:en
Published: ScholarWorks 2015
Subjects:
Art
Online Access:http://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1689