Tammy Sinkfield-Morey DNP MAN RN PHN CRRN (she/her), is a Nursing Supervisor at Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare in St. Paul, Minnesota. She received her Doctorate degree in Transcultural Nursing from Augsburg College in 2016. She is a 2018 Josie R. Johnson Leadership Academy Fellow, the 2018 March of Dimes “Distinguished Nurse of The Year” and the Minnesota Hospital Association 2019 “Caregiver of the Year” for her work in Storying, and Diversity and Inclusion.

Personal Statement
Ours is the task to pursue our passions and visions in discovery of our authentic roles, that we may reveal and give expression to who we are genuinely, self-actualized. My authentic role is as a nurse, a habitat for the spiritual practice of healing. I strive to connect with others in a deep way, that I may hold them in wholeness, sustaining through healing, vulnerability and wellness. As I do so, I affect my own wholeness, healing, vulnerability and wellness. This is my divine appointment, and I am connected within an infinite field of universal love. ~

I as a nurse am a universe healer, able to take the chaotic, uneasy, disquieting, and formidable encounters and turn them into something wonderfully compelling and meaningful. I have been moved by the caustic nature and explosiveness of racism and chronic health conditions to know myself in a wholly new sense. My calling to healing ways and my nursing ministry emotionally began as the wife of a man dying of cancer. I grounded myself to survive in the moment of finding a last attempt for his living, while readying myself for his inevitable mortality, endowing my spirit in purposefulness for my future. It was challenging to keep our hearts lit while the fire of his dying being suffocated us.

The unique energies in those moments which guided me toward living and my husband toward dying, both gracefully and intentionally were the foundation of who I have become as a nurse healer. I became aware of my calling as he was being called upon. ~

I am a child of God, faithful and ever grateful for my many blessings and the lesser blight. I am prayerful every waking moment and in each instance of suspended consciousness. I strive, in all my activities, to reveal the glory, honor and mercy of the Lord. My belief in the power of faith and prayer has been embedded culturally. I practice holistically and aesthetically, being fully mindful and intentional to ensure that I deliver the best of care and I serve to achieve the absolute optimal of outcomes for all. I am here to make a difference in the transcultural society that we as nurses practice in.