The South Suburban ICU nurses got a taste of their own medicine Wednesday as art students from Hillcrest High School in Country Club Hills and Bremen High School in Midlothian spent the morning ado…
Advocate South Suburban Hospital nurses Sharise Lopez, left, and Katie Trotter, stand in a hallway outside the hospital’s intensive care unit as student artists from Hillcrest and Bremen high schools paint the windows May 1. It takes a tremendous skill set to be a nurse working in an intensive care unit. Besides medical training, nurses need empathy, mental and physical stamina and the flexibility to handle a wide range of stressful situations.
“This is great for young people,” said Jamilah Adebesin Mason, an art teacher at Hillcrest. “We’re training them to become productive members of society. They have to take what they’re learning in the classroom and apply it in the real world. For several seniors preparing to graduate from Bremen, the opportunity to break away from the school building for a day also was appealing.
“There’s a freedom; you can do what you like,” he said, standing by his painted image of a fish eyeing a fishhook. “They needed a window painted, and I started drawing.” Faith Aparicio, a senior at Bremen High School in Midlothian, stands next to art she painted on a window Wednesday, May 1, at Advocate South Suburban Hospital in Hazel Crest. Some of the paint started flaking off of her original image, so she altered it and channeled famous painter Bob Ross, calling it a “happy mistake.”
For South Suburban ICU nurse Sharise Lopez, of Monee, the mural was reminiscent of a similar effort a few years ago that really meant a lot to her and her colleagues.
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