Dawn Jones, RN, NC-BC: Holistic nurse coach, experienced clinical nurse

Issue 26 | March 8 | 2022
Written By NurseDeck
 
 

An exclusive interview: The nurse thinking differently about wellness

I think that we need to kind of reframe what's happening to us, and recognize that this is a call to change, this is a reckoning that's happening in nursing right now. We're not being called to leave the profession, we're being called to transform our profession so we can live in our integrity without the moral injury that comes from, “your asking me to do too much, I literally can't do this, and by you asking me to do this, I may be performing harm on someone, and how am I supposed to go home and move on knowing that I have this duty to take care of other people.” We innovate, we’re resilient as hell, but we've been innovative and resilient and made this broken system look like it's working for far too long.

We're the reason it continues to stay afloat, but you continue to beat the worker and the workers finally said, “we're standing up.” I give huge props to Gen Z: they want balance, and I applaud them. We wanted balance a long time ago but we had these boomers telling us like, “you've got to suck it up” and “you've got to win.” We got stuck in the mindset that we actually had to work harder, and not take a look at self compassion.

 

Dawn Jones is a board certified holistic nurse coach with an extensive clinical back bedside background in neonatal intensive care, pediatrics, dialysis, and as a transplant team coordinator. She founded her coaching business What the Actual Health (WTAhealth.com) in May 2021, and now works with nurses to practice love and self-compassion and feel empowered to be an expert on their needs and choices. Through coaching principles and healing modalities, she supports healing in the body, mind, emotion, spirit, and environment. She believes that health promotion and holistic wellness starts with the nurse, so we need healthcare professionals who engage in healthy lifestyles to model health and wellness at work, home, and in the community.

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