Ep28: Breaking Silos with Nurse Coaching- Denise Ervin, BSN, RN, NC-BC Highlights

"I realized the silos don't work. The barriers don't work. We have to have partnership, we have to have integration, we have to come together as community, as healthcare professionals, so that we can then have the resources, the strength, and the energy to support what the system changes need, as well as what our community needs." ~Denise Ervin, RN, BSN, NC-BC

Ah-Ha Moments

• If you want to learn more about yourself, have courage to keep on pursuing what is missing for you. In fact, book a few sessions with a trusted Nurse Coach to help you develop an individualized plan.
• The Universe will allow you to connect the dots if you are open to it
• Nurse Coaches can be embedded into hospital and Nursing culture. No one cares for Nurses or understands Nurses like a fellow Nurse
• If you want to offer Nurse Coaching in your facility, do some research about what is happening in your place of work, what are they offering, how can you compliment that, or take it a step further?
• Use your ‘high equity relationships’, those people who you know and reach to them, have courage, no one will know what you have to offer until they hear from you!
• Make connections with Nurses that share your same beliefs and then keep that connection alive, because it can be very lonely doing something new and innovative, plus they’ll help you get through those ‘scary spots’
• Connect to your heart space. Who are you? How do you want to lead as a Nurse?

Links & Resources

Larry Dossey and Barbie Dossey

Theory of Integral Nursing

Theory of Integrative Nurse Coaching

Battling Burnout with Nurse Coaching: Stories from the ICU AHNA article

The Nurse Coaching Process in Comparison with the Nursing Process AHNA article