'Faces of Nursing' Mural, A Student-Led Project, Nears
Completion
At the Feb. 24 'paint-in,' 22
students worked on the five-panel project.
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By Kelly Brooks-Staub School of Nursing
A student-led effort at the
School of Nursing
is transforming a blank wall adjacent to the student lounge
into a 150-square-foot "Faces of Nursing" mural. The
project depicts the diversity of the nursing workforce and
is the result of collaboration among a unique group of
Johns Hopkins students, coordinated by Rayanne Harris from
the SoN traditional class of 2006.
After the initial design was created by mural artist
Frank Gallimore, a graduate student in the
Writing
Seminars, nursing student volunteers worked through the
month of February to trace the mural's outline onto the
wall. Twenty-two students attended a "paint-in" event on
Feb. 24, covering most of the mural's surface with colorful
paint. The final details, to be finished by May 1, will
take considerable time and effort to complete: Each of the
faces takes five to six hours of work.
The mural consists of five panels, about
5-and-a-half-feet wide, each of which shows a distinctly
different "face" of the profession: a nurse listening to
the heartbeat of a hospital patient; military nurses caring
for a patient in a field tent; community health nurses
visiting a family in a neighborhood of East Baltimore
rowhouses; a nurse giving Reiki, a Japanese healing
treatment, to a patient; and a nurse educator in front of a
classroom.
"This vibrant mural will inspire students, staff and
faculty alike," Harris says. "'Faces of Nursing' emphasizes
that creativity and beauty are not lost elements of
nursing. The mural's many layers of meaning remind students
that though we have many choices in our professional paths,
all of them carry common elements of compassion, knowledge
and responsibility."
Working with Harris and Gallimore are team members
Bhavini Mody '06, art director; faculty adviser Jo Walrath;
and staff advisers Sandra Angell, associate dean for
student affairs, and Nancy Rent, administrative assistant
in the Office of Admissions and Student Services. Funding
was provided through the JHU Alumni Association and
donations from the classes of 2006 and 2007.
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