Welcome to episode 76 [originally broadcast on Wednesday 12 January 2022] of #mhTV. This week Vanessa Gilmartin-Garrity, Nicky Lambert spoke with guest Dr. Marion Lynch to about the 'I'm Fine' Art Project.
Marion currently works in global health systems development and clinical education. She is a general and mental health registered nurse and Visiting Professor at University of West London and University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda. She is also Trustee of the arts and health charity PIH which is where this project on images and art to support nurses' wellbeing comes from. This work includes exploring how the arts help us understand and improve health, our own, and our patients' health and wellbeing. Her Doctorate helps explore this academically and her personal experience working with colleagues and patients during COVID explains this personally. This I'm Fine Art Project comes from listening to nurses say 'I’m fine', but not meaning it, sailing with young people living with cancer and hearing them speak about their experiences during COVID and the impact nurses have had, and seeing the unrepresentative and sometimes unhelpful images of nurses in the media.
Some links to follow:
You can look at the Healthcare Heroes, #PortraitsForNHSHeroes via https://artsandculture.google.com/project/healthcare-heroes
Some Twitter links to follow are:
VG - https://twitter.com/VanessaRNMH
NL - https://twitter.com/niadla
ML - https://twitter.com/drmarionlynch
Credits:
Presenter: Vanessa Gilmartin-Garrity & Nicky Lambert
Guest: Prof. Dr. Marion Lynch
Theme music: Tony Gillam
Production & Editing: David Munday (https://twitter.com/davidamunday)
