Graduate Spotlight
Kathy Jones, APRN, AHN-BC;
NWC & NDHCP graduate
“Each course intrigues me to go deeper.”
In the beautiful river town of Kankakee, IL, lives a school nurse whose 1,800 young clients attend four schools in the neighboring Braidwood community. Ranging from pre-schoolers to young adults, and from “typical” to gifted/creative to developmentally challenged, Kathy Jones knows just how exceptional each student is.
That’s why she is so passionate about the way children and families begin their day. Kathy has earned CATCH grants – Coordinated Approach to Child Health – to facilitate healthier food choices in school lunchrooms, plus community outreach to help motivate parents to understand and embrace their roles in creating healthy kitchens at home and instilling nutritional knowledge for this and future generations of consumers. Through innovative corporate partnerships, Kathy’s Reed Custer School District is in the midst of incorporating the Wellness/Nutrition policy and providing healthy snack options.
“We all know that education is a lifelong investment,” she says, “and the way to nurture this innate health and growth on all fronts is with a good beginning. Nutrition is the bottom line to children’s ailing health and behavior. Real whole foods and plant based supplements are two keys to turning the health crisis around.”
Kathy first chose nursing as an inquisitive Candystriper (teenage hospital volunteer) who saw nursing as a way to help people learn how to take better care of themselves. Alas, from working in a traditional healthcare setting, obtaining numerous degrees and certificates and now 10 years’ tenure in an educational setting, Kathy has realized the “mechanical patch, patching” was not effective in helping people learn to live healthier.
Becoming a school nurse has transformed Kathy Jones and all who know her!
Empowering students to cope with and rise above health issues from obesity and ADD/ADHD to diabetes, she has earned a Reed Custer Educational Foundation Grant for “sound” classroom innovations such as music therapy intervention and voice-printing or vocal profiling as a health assessment tool.
Human BioAcoustics uses voice spectral analysis to model the frequencies and architecture of human vocalization to identify the innate mathematical templates of the human body. “It’s the idea that our voice offers a holographic representation of health and wellness,” she says, citing the work of famous psychoneuroimmunologist Candace Pert, Ph.D., whose Molecules of Emotion text is part of Kathy’s Clayton studies.
“Sensory influences shape the biochemical and structural characteristics of the body. Our neuropeptide proteins are, indeed, our molecules of emotion.”
As you may imagine Kathy and her husband, Bobby, activate the emotion of engaged parenting with their own home life as well, volunteering with their teenage sons’ U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps training program. One son currently dreams of becoming a veterinarian and the other envisions the life of a geophysicist.
As Kathy approaches completion of her N.D. coursework, the lifelong student has added a second certificate program in Iridology, and now plans to also pursue our Ph.D. in Holistic Nutrition.
Stay tuned, and you can hear Kathy Jones’ recent live-from-Las Vegas interview with the Boston-based New England School of Whole Health Education.
For more information: www.nurseradio.org
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