‘Finest of the fine arts’
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‘Finest of the fine arts’

Stephen Wright Professor, Faculty of health and social care, St Martin’s College, Carlisle, and chair of the Sacred Space Foundation

Think of art and what springs to mind – paintings, music, sculpture? But in the last article in our heart of nursing series, Stephen Wright explores how nursing and art are closely related

Florence Nightingale said nursing is ‘the finest of the fine arts’. In the last of our Heart of Nursing series, we consider the similarities between nursing care and art.

Nursing Standard. 21, 4, 20-22. doi: 10.7748/ns.21.4.20.s26

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