News Release
September 2000
(Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) – Baccalaureate nursing
students from Moravian College will join with diploma nursing students
from St. Luke’s Hospital on a trip to the Philadelphia Museum
of Art. The students will learn about nursing through the century at
the Nightingale’s Song Art Exhibit on Wednesday, September 20.
Joining the students will be the visiting Australian nurses, who are
participating in the Australian – American Nurses Exchange Program
2000. Also on the trip will be faculty, alumni, and hospital nurse clinicians.
The School of Nursing’s purpose in organizing this
experience for students is to promote the visualization in various art
formats of the power and presence of nurses and nursing through the
centuries. The Art of Nursing exhibit, The Nightingale’s Song:
Nurses and Nursing in the Ars Medica Collection features 80 historic
prints, drawings, and photographs. This exhibit examines the history
of nursing over six centuries and four continents, with the mood of
the works ranging form inspirational to cautionary to humorous. The
exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art will be on display from August
26 to October 29.
The day will begin with a program, "The Scientific
Sessions of the Australian – American Nurses Exchange Program"
from 9:00 a.m. to noon. Later the bus will go to Philadelphia and the
nurses will tour the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Nightingale’s
Song Art Exhibit from 3:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Nurses in the community who may want to join this group
to attend the exhibit may contact St. Luke’s School of Nursing
at (610) 861-1607.
Moravian College is a private, coeducational, selective
liberal arts college located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Tracing its
founding to 1742, it is recognized as America's sixth-oldest college.
Visit the Web site at www.moravian.edu.
