Jeanine Young-Mason

Jeanine Young-Mason, EdD, RN, CS, FAAN is Distinguished Professor Emerita, College of Nursing, UMass Amherst, recent Co-Director of the UMass Community Arts, Health, and Healing Project and Bay State Franklin Medical Center Healing Environment Project, Greenfield MA, She was consultant to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Healing Environment Committee and further, participated in the creation of the indoor, two-story sanctuary Stoneman Healing Garden at the Dana-Farber Yawkey Center for Cancer Care. Young-Mason's column "Nursing and the Arts" has appeared in Clinical Nurse Specialist: International Journal for Advanced Nursing Practice since 1991. The column explores the ways in which the performing and expressive arts inform and enrich the art of nursing practice. It seeks to answer the question: how might nurses continue to evolve their understanding of the human condition, their aesthetic perceptions and their appreciation of the fleeting intangibles of human existence which may seem insignificant compared to the scientific data they are accustomed to relying upon? She is author of 6 books: States of Exile: Correspondences Between Art, Literature, and Nursing; 21 Words for Nurses; First (1997) and Second Edition (2016) of The Patient's Voice: Experiences of Illness (Japanese edition, Tokyo 2001); Instructor's Guide for The Patient's Voice: Experiences of Illness; Critical Moments: Doctor and Nurse Narratives and Reflections; and numerous essays in nursing and cross disciplinary journals. She has presented her research and work on compassion nationally and in Europe, Japan, and Iraq. Young-Mason continues her consultation work: arts4health - Creating Healing, Restorative, Life-Enhancing Environments in Healthcare. Visit Young-Mason's Website: www.arts4health.org for further information about her research and writing.