Celebrating the 2020 Year of the Nurse with Poetry
Staff at the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton were invited by Air Arts - the arts charity for Derby Teaching Hospitals - to share poems reflecting on their nursing experiences . The poems celebrate both the 2020 Year of the Nurse & Midwife and the bicentenary of the birth of Florence Nightingale. The poems have been beautifully illustrated by E J Lance to produce colouring sheets. Some of the staff chose to read their poetry and Derby Museums have put this together to create a series of short videos, which you can view below. There are five poems in total, please check back for more coming soon.
The illustrated poems were created as part of 'Colour Me, Read Me', an Air Arts publication, designed to enhance wellbeing for patients in hospital by providing opportunities for them to read poems and colour the detailed illustrations. It is is available as part of single use patient activity packs across all of the Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust hospitals.
Click here to download the poem and illustration featured in this video as a colouring sheet.
Click here to download the poem and illustration featured in this video as a colouring sheet.
Click here to download the poem and illustration featured in this video as a colouring sheet.