The Art of Nursing: Novel Nurses (Online)
24 Sep 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
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The seventh Art of Nursing Webinar, in partnership with Foundation of Nursing Studies, looks at the work of nurses who write novels.
‘A novelist can do anything they want so long as he makes people believe in it.’ Garcia Marquez
We bring together nurses who write novels. We share their examples of their work and together discuss why they write fiction and how being a nurse helps.
List of speakers
Gaye Poole: Gaye was a general then a psychiatric nurse before retraining as a method actor. After co-founding www.humanstorytheatre.com, Gaye has continued to create characters facing health and social issues in her plays and recently with her first novel Edges of Me.
Paul Crawford: Professor of Health Humanities at The Institute of Mental Health. His latest novel, The Wonders of Doctor Bent, is a dark literary thriller about mental health trauma.
Claire Su-Yeon Park: Interdisciplinary nursing scholar based in Korea who integrates artificial intelligence and quantum computing into nursing workforce management and policy. She shares the tensions found when working across nursing and AI through her poetry. This poem called Twilight has been published in nursing journals.
Dr Marion Lynch: A general and mental health nurse and public health specialist focussing on how the arts help health. Her work in creative health spans from using arts to help health within young offenders institutions to speaking at the United Nations. She is an author of Harnessing the Arts to Deliver the Sustainable Development Goals and is leading the #Art of Nursing
Novel Nurses is our seventh Art of Nursing Webinar. These webinars are in partnership with Foundation of Nursing Studies and showcase how nurses and artists are working together to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Our webinars fit into your busy life, designed so that you may listen on the go or join us whilst you take a moment, and we have a fire side chat.
Our webinars are engaging hour-long fire side chats (no slides allowed), bringing interesting people and innovative ideas together to show what is possible and how the arts help us deliver sustainable goals. Five people - nurses, artists, and activists - come together to share their work and inspire others into action.
How to join
This event will be hosted on Zoom. Details on how to access the zoom link will be sent to you via email.
This is event is open to all, but targeted at nursing and healthcare staff and artists.
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