We have a contract with a hospital in our city to provide bedside music therapy for patients on palliative care as well as recovering from illness or surgery. We are referred by the chaplains on the spiritual care staff or by RNs in each wing.
A patient who had just been placed on palliative measures […]
We have just booked 3 Thanksgiving and Christmas party dates for the upcoming holidays!! Every year, my subcontractors (Kindred Spirits Music Therapy, Rose City Music Therapy and Waves Music Therapy) and I are asked to provide musical “entertainment” for client and family parties. While this isn’t really “music therapy” per se, we […]
Music therapy is a health care profession which uses music to effect therapeutic change.
Music therapists are board-certified (MT-BC), and licensed (in some states). Music therapists must complete 1200 hours of clinical internship experience, an approved Bachelor, Master or Ph. D. level music therapy degree program, and pass a board-certification exam.
In the hospital setting, doctors, […]
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” ~ Bob Marley
You know that feeling you get when you listen to music you absolutely love? You get “the chills” or tingles, or your hair may stand on end. You might close your eyes to take it all in, and a […]
Facing the end of life, your own or a loved one’s, commonly brings with it feelings of anxiety. These feelings may stem from a variety of sources, including emotional, psychological, spiritual or social. Medications, physiological changes in the body due to the progression of illness may also contribute to anxiety in patients on hospice […]
Transition is perhaps among of the most difficult times we human beings face. We shift from one situation to another, sometimes becoming overwhelmed by the challenges these transitions bring to ourselves and to those we love. Patients in hospice care and their families can find these changes troublesome, often having difficulty letting go of […]
I have revived my 1000 Person Project, giving myself another shot at reaching my goal of telling 1,000 people in Clark County (Vancouver, Camas, Washougal, LaCenter, Salmon Creek, Washington) about the healing power of music and music therapy. Today, I was invited to a PEO meeting, attended by 36 lovely women. I […]
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/568421From Nursing Economics A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Music Therapy in a Home Hospice Rafael Romo, MSN, RN; Lisa Gifford, MSN, RN […]