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'Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation, as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit?   It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.'Florence NightingaleMarlyn Duncan Boyd, Ph.D., R.N.. uses her artwork to preserve the images of the profession of nursing.   Specifically, she focuses on painting nurses' caps as a way to record these symbols of nursing.   Her original nurse...more
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The Art of Nursing

July 8th, 2011

Wow! I can't believe that I have decided to start a blog about my nursing dedicated artwork. How did this all start? With a nurse and a nurse's cap, of course. Several years ago I had a life altering event. I was involved in a head on auto acci...