Tara Rynders

Biography:

Tara Rynders RN, MFA, BSN, BA, has been a nurse for over 20 years and is the founder of The Clinic, an arts and play-based theater company that provides workshops and research around burnout and secondary traumatic stress. Rynders has an MFA in Dance and is an Advanced Grief Recovery Specialist. She is honored to hold the 2022 Colorado EY Next Wave Leader Award, 2021 Oncology Nursing Foundation Lectureship, 2019 Colorado Regional Nightingale Luminary Award, and the 2019 National Organization for the Arts in Health Award for Arts in Resiliency. Rynders most recently returned from a Fulbright in the Netherlands conducting research and sharing best practices around arts-based interventions around wellness and resilience and her most recent publication can be viewed in the July 2022 issue of the AMA Journal of Ethics, Arts-Based Research in Health Care “How the Arts Help Us Hold Grief and Maintain Collective Care” She is grateful to be here with you today as she shares her mission to help nurses remember the brilliant and resilient humans we already are.