Tara Rynders:
I'm a registered nurse.
I was a patient for the first time during this experience of having an ectopic pregnancy that had burst. All these people came rushing into my room and yelling, and it was very chaotic.
But I remember my nurse, and she took my hand and she whispered into my ear and she said, "I'm here and you're going to be OK."
After that moment, I realized, this is important work. So I began researching patient outcomes, and realized that what's stopping our patients from feeling seen and heard and cared for every time is compassion fatigue and nursing burnout.
And so I created a performance and workshop series to raise awareness, but also give resources and tools for resiliency.
The clinic is an art-based workshop series in immersive theater performance. The intention was to raise awareness around compassion fatigue and nursing burnout. It brought people into the hospital for a whole 'nother reason than to see someone who's sick or to have a baby, but to watch an actual performance take place in the halls of a hospital.
You follow a woman throughout the hospital as she eventually loses her husband. You also watch the nurses as they share from their perspective what they're going through. It's like a behind-the-scenes of what nurses and physicians go through every day.
In the workshop, we brought nurses in, and we spent time with them doing the arts and getting them into a different headspace. Currently, what our performances are looking like are called COVID stories. So, now I'm using artists and nurses to come together and create this conversation, so that the nurses who are inspired now by — after going through these workshops are actually wanting to perform, actually wanting to move and share their own personal stories.
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