Nurses and Allies Harnessing the Arts to Deliver the Sustainable Development Goals

Part 1 Theory, biology, pedagogy and policy 1 How Nursing and the Arts can deliver the SDGs and Shape a Healthier World.-2 Flourishing Futures: Nurses, Artists, and Allies for the SDG Era 2030 and beyond.-3 From Tides to Treaties: Art, Nursing, and the Radical Imagination for a Sustainable Future.-4 Beauty and Biology: Neuroarts and How the Arts Affect the Brain.-5 How the arts and creativity shape health strategy in England: A collective overview from National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) Creative Health Associates.-6 Policymaking in Arts and Health.-7 Orchestras Live: Measuring Social Return on Investment. How to measure benefit, prove impact and deliver the SDGs.-Part 2 Perspectives 8 A perspective from Turning Point. Using arts and creativity to create social value in drug and alcohol, mental health and learning disability services.- 9 Perspectives from Professor of Nursing: How and why we have built the arts into nursing education, and the impact this has.-10 Embracing our creative roots; looking back to move forward.-11 The arts as a psychotherapeutic tool: Dramatherapy.-12 Being an artist in the NHS.-13 A nurse’s perspective: How being an arts professional first helps me be a nurse now.-14 A learner’s perspective. An artistic view from medicine. Swapping my stethoscope for a shovel and paint. a medical student and writer’s reflection on arts in health.-Part 3 Projects 15 SHIFT. Co-Creating a Play Making the Mental Health Nurses Invisible Skills Visible.-16 A sense of belonging through song. Sharing the love with social enterprise.-17 A Play and so much more.-18 Creative dying in palliative care.-19 The solace of seventeen syllables: Haiku and creative expression in palliative care.-20 Parklands: a story of persistence and how the arts help us to stay afloat in the same boat.-21 Seeking asylum and seeing art.-22 Nurses using song writing and day time TV to influence climate action.-23 A game change in global health – transformative narratives.-24 The Story of Human Story Theatre.-Part 4 Final work and future focus 25 Telling the future. Radical imagination. Questions to ask and answers to find.-26 Epilogue.