Nurse and singer-songwriter Megan Palmer said the nurses use music and their voices to calm and comfort people, even something as simple as singing “Happy Birthday.”
They’re going beyond just familiar tunes. In conjunction with House of Songs, a songwriters’ collaborative nonprofit, Palmer gathered some of the medical staff on the unit to co-write songs when they weren’t working their 12-hour shifts. Since they worked together on the same unit, Palmer said she’s basically already been quarantining with her co-workers anyway.
The connection, both musical and physical, has become more important during the COVID-19 pandemic, when patients are unable to have family or friends by their side for comfort because of virus fears. The caregivers in Palmer’s and Henderson’s unit focus on patients who have a life-threatening and incurable illness. Some patients are at the end of their lives or are preparing to enter hospice.
They wrote the song “Stop For a Minute,” which starts with the description of rushing to check on a patient’s call light. Henderson was inspired by a female patient who asked the nurse to sit with her and hold her hand.Paul Raymond, the nurse manager for the palliative care unit and a musician and songwriter himself, co-wrote a song with Palmer called “Take Good Care,” in Raymond’s home studio.
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