COMPASSION IS A SUPERPOWER Nurses are clinical artists who perform amazing feats of skill while providing emotional, physical, and spiritual care to human beings during the worst moments in their lives. Meeting those patient needs in a tech-dependent health care system requires super human abilities, or at least some creativity. The sacred trust of Nurse-Patient relationships is in peril if we do not take a stand for keeping compassion and creativity alive in our bedside manner. What's the magic formula for connecting with patients, relieving work related stress, and preventing nursing burnout in today's tech-based medical business? Magic Nurse - Bedside Artist is an inspirational deep dive into the benefits of infusing performing arts into your healing practice. Traveling with Patch Adams on a humanitarian clown mission, then off to Israel to learn from the best medical clown program in the world, The Dream Doctor Project, I found real magic in a variety of therapeutic arts. Start your creative journey as I share the secret to greater job satisfaction and happier, healthier patient experiences. Find your magic and enhance your clinical practice. Your talents are needed to nurture a Creative Evolution in Healthcare. ~~~~~~ "He is great with families and has a natural way of sensing how to approach the patients. I often thought it would be great if we had the magic to clone Rob." - Desmond B. Henry, MD, Chief of Pediatric Anesthesiology and Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center "We appreciate and are thankful that Rob took the time to develop a fun way to care for the whole child, not just the illness or the symptom, and is sharing it with our community." - Robin R. Lee, Executive Director, Spina Bifida Association of North Texas