Reinforce the Horse-016: Jen Kirk | How Horses Have Changed My Life Series

19/03/2022 48 min Temporada 1 Episodio 16
Reinforce the Horse-016: Jen Kirk | How Horses Have Changed My Life Series

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Jennifer Kirk BA ,BN, RN, EFLP ​is the founder of Dragonfly Meadows, a Canada-based organization which provides Equine-Facilitated Learning workshops for Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, and other professional caregivers.Jennifer is a practicing Registered Nurse with 17 years experience. As an RN who has worked the majority of her career in critical care, she knows all too well the challenges nurses face. Throughout her career, she has experienced, firsthand, the myriad changes within the health care system which have had a significant impact on nurses. These include: increased workload, low morale, high turnover rates, moral injury, compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and poor work life balance, to name a few.Jennifer desired to find a way to help nurses understand and manage the stressors of their chosen career. She completed her first Equine-Facilitated Learning workshop in 2012.  She is a certified Equine Learning Professional through PRO-EFW ( Canada).  A magazine article on Compassion Fatigue was an "A-ha" moment for her and she began offering Equine-Facilitated Learning Workshops for Nurses in 2014. Jennifer lives in the beautiful Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia Canada with her husband Scott, her miniature dachshund Dixie as well as her 3 miniature horses, Sugar, Captain and Luna as well as her full sized horses Tinker and Annie.Send us a message. We'd love to hear from you.Intro/Outro music provided by Justin Tamminga