Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION!: Recent Episodes

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Wellness Nurse Revolution: Alison Boser RN

“Everybody wants their employees to be healthy, but being healthy…What does that mean? And that means different things to different people. It's not one size fits all.

It's a really flexible, definition based on your stage of life, where you are. And I think an awareness of wellness as this sort of amorphous different things at different times for people would be fantastic. I think wellness, like capital W wellness, has a bit of a negative connotation that, you must be very thin and muscular and do hot yoga or something, but that's not it.

You know, it's like walking your dog. It's your grandma who can carry your groceries into her house at 95 and she gets them after she goes and plays cards! It's strong communities. I'd love to see all of the skills from Nurse coaching and all the Nurse coaches ripple out like that.” ~Alison Boser, RN

AH-HA Moments

• From Trauma to Transformation: Alison shares her journey from emergency and travel nursing to creating her dream role as a Wellness Nurse—a position she literally spoke into existence.
• Wellness in Action: Learn how Alison supports hospital staff with coaching, crisis response, mindfulness, group programs, and even “7-minute weightlifting sessions” to make wellness accessible in busy hospital life.
• Healing the Healers: Through compassion, listening, and presence, she models what it means to show up for others—and herself—while advocating for sustainable, human-centered healthcare systems.
• Community & Connection: From workplace book clubs to environmental wellness initiatives like composting and recycling programs, Alison weaves community care into hospital culture.
• The Ripple Effect: By supporting one nurse at a time, the Wellness Nurse Revolution uplifts whole teams, reduces burnout, and redefines what health looks like inside healthcare.

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program
• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast
• Severance by Ling Ma
• Alison's LinkedIn
• Alison's Instagram
• Alison's Substack

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The Daring Power of Two: Midlife Women Entrepreneurs Enhancing Health Care- Jen Schroer BSN, RN, NC-BC and Angie Maguire BSN, RN, NC-BC Highlights

Ah- Ha Moments

• Meet the Nurse Coach Duo: Jen Schroer and Angie Maguire as they share why they chose entrepreneurship and the Integrative Nurse Coach path to serve midlife women through preventative, actionable lifestyle care.
• From “do it perfect” to “do it sloppy”, they launched a collaborative YouTube channel. Larning the behind thumbnails, Zoom, Canva, cadence, they’ve proved momentum and community beats perfectionism every time
• The ah-ha moments they discovered from their Integrative Nurse Coaching programs center on client-led change, simple tools like breathwork, and honoring each person’s unique vision of wellness, and that life and healthcare is not a one-size-fits-all approach
• Integrative Nurse Coaches ‘slow the roll’ of fast, task-driven systems—focusing on prevention, whole-person assessments and plans (physical, mental, emotional, social, occupational and more), and practical lifestyle tweaks (e.g., blood-sugar awareness) with time to truly listen
• Inspired by the 2024 INCA Symposium, they championed collaboration over competition, inviting Nurses and Nurse Coaches to connect, share modalities (sound healing, pelvic floor PT, hypnosis, functional medicine), and lift up more voices to transform care together

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast
• Inspiring Nurse Voices at the 2024 INCA Symposium!
• More Inspiring Nurse Voices from the 2024 INCA Symposium
• Nurse Coach Duo YouTube
• Clarity Health & Wellness Coaching
• Coach Angie
• Clarity Health & Wellness Coaching Instagram
• Clarity Health & Wellness Coaching Facebook
• Jen’s LinkedIn
• Coach Angie Instagram
• Angie’s LinkedIn

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Ah Ha Moments

• We have our own pharmacy inside
• Movement in your body is a powerful tool for whole health
• Communities are an imperative piece of any healing journey
• Everything and anything you do to advance wellness, collective joy, health and whatever it is YOU want to do will benefit our world
• Diversifying your revenue streams may help you find more joy in your work
• We need each other!

Links and Resources

• Cannabis Nursing Certificate Program
• Integrative Nurse Coach Academy Integrative Nurse Coach Program Info
• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast episodes
• Pause. Notice. Choose
• The Joy of Movement Kelly McGonigal
• Strong Women Stay Young Miriam Nelson
• Whole Health Institute Alice Walton
• Whole Health Collective
• Whole Health Wheel VA
• Lisa is also a holistic nurse coach to the men of www.HELDHousingInitiative.com We are helping men who have made the brave decision to rebuild their lives again after addiction and incarceration.
• Thriller Video link

Connect with Lisa: lisabellRN@gmail.com

Connect with Nicole: nicole@bluemonarchhealth.com

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From Patient to Purpose: A Nurse Coach’s Mission to Transform Organ Donation Support- Taylor Byrer BSN, RN, NC-BC Highlights

“I was telling these two about my story and about how I needed a liver. And it was the most moving, most like chilling experience, like every single hair on my body was standing straight, because then the next time that we met, one of them had shared that she had lost her dad, and it was unexpected.

And then the hospital staff came to her and asked if he was an organ donor. And she said, ‘No, he wasn’t.’ And she said, ‘I had never thought about him being an organ donor, like I never thought about that process.’

And she said, ‘…and it wasn't until I heard about your story that I said, Yes, I want him to be an organ donor, and he would be okay with that’. And then he was an organ donor. And then she came back to me again a couple weeks later, and she said, Taylor, the only organ that he was able to get was his liver.” ~Taylor Byrer BSN, RN, NC-BC

Ah-Ha Moments

• Taylor’s story reminds Integrative Nurse Coaches how vital holistic presence and deep listening are during life-altering medical experiences
• This story is a powerful lesson in how lived experiences can shape a meaningful coaching niche. Feel and notice how you are called towards the population you will serve best!
• Even small steps—emails, calls, visits—can create real momentum
• You will hear “no”: instead of discouragement, no can bring clarity and redirection
• Say yes to the possibilities that call to you, yes to compassion, and yes to being an organ donor

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program information
• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast past episodes
• Taylor's email
• organdonor.gov

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“I find that people make the changes best when they uncover the information themselves. I can offer them information, but unless they come up with that solution, that's where real magic happens. That's where change happens when they come up with their own solution.

And I find through the subconscious work with hypnosis and yoga nidra, that sometimes you just really need to be in that relaxed state to have it come to the surface. You may not even be aware of it, and it comes to the surface, and then that's when the transformation happens.” ~Mary Cohen MSN-ED, RN, AHN-BC, HWNC-BC, CH, NLP

Ah-Ha Moments

· Nurses can combine Integrative Nurse Coaching with any other modality that they find impactful. Integrative Nurse Coaching is limitless!

· When patients, clients and communities allow for stillness in their lives, messages from their subconscious will move into consciousness, often allowing for new awareness and opportunities for impactful transformation

· Important to listen, and hear the client’s patient’s message and then to reflect back what you heard, instead of offering solutions- this allows the person to define their own solutions in their unique life

Links and Resources

· Hypnosis for Nurses Certification Program with the Integrative Nurse Coach Academy

· Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast

· Joyful Wellness website

· Free Hypnosis Audio. Calm from Within

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Inspiring Collective Community: Christine Gilchrist PhD, MPH, RN, NC-BC, CH Highlights

"To each of you— to ask, at this point, 'what is it you're hoping for'? And then when you have that, when you've reflected on that, to go back inside and ask, 'what is your deeper hope'? I think, to be able to connect with feelings of hope through difficult times that certainly we experience in our lives and as a society, it's important to connect with hope, the feelings of hope, and what ultimately we're hoping for, because there's always, there's always hope in each moment." ~Christine Gilchrist PhD, MPH, RN, NC-BC, CH

Ah-Ha Moments

• You can do anything you set your mind to!
• Connect with your Community- they will hold up a mirror for you, to see how powerful you are
• Words and how we can connect them for our clients, patients and communities are important in the sense of change and evolution
• Imagine your future as you want it... and so it is
• You'll find healing in community

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast
• Clinical Meditation and Imagery with Bonney and Richard Schaub
• Harnessing the Power of Hypnosis Intro Course
• Hypnosis for Nurses: Certification Course
• Calm Collective Care
• Dean Ornish program
• Christine's LinkedIn
• Christine's YouTube
• Ep34: Powerfully Linking Curanderismo and Nurse Coaching-Caroline Ortiz, MS, MPH, RN, NV-BC

Articles:

• Trauma-Disclosure, Meaning-Making, and Help-Seeking in Mothers Experiencing Homelessness: Results From a Trauma-Focused, Clinical Ethnographic Narrative Intervention
• Pilot clinical trial of a clinical meditation and imagery intervention for chronic pain after spinal cord injury
• A Randomized Trial of a Group-Based Integrative Medicine Approach Compared to Waitlist Control on Irritable Bowel Syndrome Symptoms in Adults
• The Nurse Coach Community – 700+ Amazing Connections

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Menopause Insights from a Nurse Coach-Suzanne Greiner BSN, RN, NC-BC Highlights

“Yes, I'm going through perimenopause. And what do I want my perimenopause story to look like? Do I want to be a victim to going through this?

Or do I want to be that victor? I went through perimenopause, and I was able to do this, and I was able to find solutions for my own health. And I think the kicker for me at that point in my perimenopausal journey was, I want this to be that when I'm 85 years old, and I look back on my life, this is the point that I chose for longevity of my life, versus a quick fix.

So, every decision past, that point in time was, is this going to be helping my 85-year-old body to hike a mountain, or is it going to set me back? So those are the kinds of decisions of working with my future self. What does my future self-want me to do at this moment?” ~Suzanne Greiner BSN, RN, NC-BC

Ah-Ha Moments

• In mid-life, if you’re lucky, you WILL go through the stages of menopause- perimenopause, menopause and post menopause
• You have choices and a voice as it relates to your health- and ALL aspects of your life
• Imagine the life you want to life at 85 years old- ask yourself- is this a decision that will support me when I get to be 85?
• Let Them = Let Me…. You get to choose what comes next. What will you do with your one precious life?

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast
• Maternal Loss Healing Circles- please email >>holly@lifecyclebalance.llc
• Ep52: Connecting Hearts with Nurse Coaching - Kim Karraker
• Human Design
• The M Factor documentary
• The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins
• Suzanne's website
• Suzanne's Instagram
• Suzanne's TikTok
• Suzanne's Facebook

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86: Building a Meditation App- Ann Adams, MS, RN Highlights

"Two supportive practices that are accessible to anybody is their breath— that can help regulate their nervous system, just by learning different ways to breathe. And gratitude. So a gratitude practice is free, and that helps you not ignore what's negative, but helps you scan the horizon for also what's good.

If we have a dysregulated nervous system, we tend to look for what can be threatening, because that will be what saves our life. So a gratitude practice helps balance that out, that intentional practice of looking for the good." ~Ann Adams, MS, RN

Ah-Ha Moments

• Take your wisdom, creativity and passion and create something you’ve always wanted or needed
• “Sometimes, you don’t always have the answers, you just know you need to begin.” ~ Dr. Barbara Dossey
• Two supportive and accessible practices are breath and gratitude
• Let your heart and inner wisdom guide you, it will never let you down
• You will learn so much about yourself when you decide to dig in and do something that is fueled by your passion and desire

Links and Resources

· Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast

· Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program

· Mindfulness Meditation: Stillness Practices for Nurses Specialty Course

· CRUSH the Pain Instagram

· CRUSH the Pain Meditation app on Google

· CRUSH the Pain Meditation app on Apple

· CRUSH the Pain website

· Ann's email

· Dean Ornish Intensive lifestyle changes for reversal of coronary heart disease (1998) article

· Candace Pert Molecules of Emotion book

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85: Celebrating Integrative Nurse Coaching: Karen Avino EdD, RN, AHN-BC, HWNC-BC Highlights

"The trend word out there is well being, right? We want Nurses, everyone, to feel like they are in the state of well being. We know that well being is really static. It's like in the present moment, I'm feeling well, whereas really, self development is about well becoming, because it's a much longer journey of... and never ending, a never ending journey of well becoming, right?

That always has to be a major part of who we are and what we do, because without that experience and being able to develop ourselves, we can't sit with the suffering of others and do a meaningful job with them, or take on the suffering ourselves, or, you know, all of those pieces." ~Karen Avino EdD, RN, AHN-BC, HWNC-BC

Ah-Ha Moments

• Innovative Specialty Courses for Nurses
• Update on Nurse Coaching CPT Codes
• Revamping the online curriculum of the Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program (INCCP)
• Renewing Alumni Connection Program
• Celebrating the success of the Integrative Nurse Coach Symposium in Florida
• Excitement about the Holistic Holiday at Sea
• • MORE!

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast
• Ep25: It's Time to Re-Energize Nurses!- Karen Avino
• Ep72: Inspiring Nurse Voices at the 2024 INCA Symposium!
• Ep73: More Inspiring Nurse Voices from the 2024 INCA Symposium!
• Holistic Holiday at Sea
• INCA's Specialty Course Page
• Karen's email

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"In the Nurse coaching certificate course, we definitely learned about mindfulness. And you know, that sounds maybe trivial to somebody who's not familiar with Nurse coaching. Sure, we know mindfulness is research fact and very effective, but it just goes so much deeper than that.

You know, we don't often as Nurses, allow ourselves enough time, time with our patients, time with ourselves, time to breathe, time to drink water, to take a rest, so allowing time and space to transpire, to let our bodies catch up with ourselves, to really hear what our patients are saying, you know, or what they're not saying.

Time is... I really think mindfulness and time are so connected that we can be mindful, intentionally mindful, if we allow ourselves more time. So that is a big one. You know, I think that's a big one in this busy healthcare space, allowing more time or creating a way to allow for more of that." ~Maggie Gardner RN, BSN, HWNC-BC, CH-C

Ah Ha Moments

• As Nurses, we can do things to numb our emotional experiences- social media, alcohol, drugs, ignoring the things we experience - this is not serving you, it never has- maybe there is another way...
• There are so many pathways you can choose to take in your professional and personal life- go in the direction that lights you up- that is the best way to go- even if it's scary
• Your sensitive heart is exactly what is needed to shift the way the healthcare system is being run! You are exactly where you need to be, right now. Continue to show up- we need you- exactly as you are

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast
• Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program
• Functional Medicine for Nurses Program
• Hypnosis for Nurses Certificate Course
• Radical Freedom: Let Go Of Who You Were and Set Your Creative Soul Free
• Free copy of Radical Freedom
• Body Mind Align website
• Maggie's Facebook
• Maggie's Instagram

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“…the problem and what is driving Nurses from the profession in droves like never seen before— please don't talk to me about attrition, well, yes, that's a factor—the world is hemorrhaging Nurses. And that's a quote from Dr. Terrance Hill, medical sociologist, the world is hemorrhaging Nurses and the root cause for that, it's not about burnout.

And please stop gaslighting Nurses about burnout resilience. Please just stop. The reason. The root cause, according to my research, five years, four disciplines, is avoidable, Nurse Specific Traumatization. And this would be this historical trauma, where we are unknowingly transmitting." ~ Dr. Lorre Laws PhD, RN

Ah Ha Moments

• All Nurses have, (or will have) experienced trauma
• Enough blame on Nurses. Healthcare system, wake up! Instead of putting the blame on your employees, let’s address the systemic problems that are causes of avoidable traumas… understaffing, bullying, violence, not addressing high acuity, lack of resources and still demanding exceptional care and more…
• Thinking that solving burnout will fix all Nursing problems is all wrong, what if what we’re experiencing is because of trauma exposure? That the actions and responses we see in ourselves, and our colleagues are because the traumas are being stored in our bodies, minds and spirits
• We must learn about how trauma can and has affected us, and make this common language, and learn how to help ourselves so we can begin to heal and insulate our nervous systems from further injury

Links and Resources

Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast

Nurse Trauma Healing Podcast

Episode 79: Together We Can Stop Shame and Blame in Nursing with Kristy Meyer

Nursing Our Healer's Heart book

Lorre's website

Dr Karen Foli Middle Range Theory of Nurses' Psychological Trauma

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82: Uplifting Messages from the Universe! Annie Jones PhD, MBA, MSN, RN, AOCN, NC-BC Highlights

“I thank the universe and have much gratitude. I think what's on my heart is that community is so important.

And it's our own responsibility for ourselves, and to remember that when we see another member of our community— so in other words, our Nursing group, our Nurse coaches in particular— is that we're a sister and brotherhood, and we have to reach out to keep ourselves together in a world that is designed, at the moment, to tear us from all ends.” ~ Annie Jones PhD, MBA, MSN, RN, AOCN, NC-BC

Ah Ha Moments

• The universe is always supporting you. Giving you what you need and who you need to elevate you and sustain you towards whatever you desire.
• Life will take you on many twists and turns and the universe will guide you.
• You will be faced with challenges and possibilities, and you get to choose. Maybe you even become a Possibilitarian!
• Listen to the messages the universe is sending you.

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast
• Barbara Dossey's website
• Harmony Hill
• Bonney & Richard Schaub - Transpersonal Nurse Coaching
• Health Forward LLC
• Annie's LinkedIn
• Harmony Hill in Union, WA
• Wings of Hope

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81: Building a Business as a New Nurse Coach- Whitney Distefano BSN, RN, NC-BC

“As a new business owner in the community, it's just been one learning opportunity after another, and truly just like a practice of vulnerability, of showing up and putting yourself out there and really doing the best I can to be detached from the outcome, which is what they teach us as Nurse Coaches as well.

Showing up day in and day out, and knowing that, you're gonna find things that you don't know how to do, you're going to find that there are questions you didn't even know were questions. And just having to come back to the attitude that, everything is figure out-able.” ~Whitney Distefano BSN, RN, NC-BC

Ah Ha Moments

• It’s absolutely vulnerable to be a new business owner, especially because Nurses are never taught how to be entrepreneurs. And yet, we can still show up and be open to the possibilities!
• Everything is ‘figure-out-able’. And we can ask for help, and be detached from the outcomes, as best we can
• Be clear on your personal vision and values, as those will be instrumental in you showing up for the world in your true, authentic way, and your ability to align with how you are being of service
• Begin with one step at a time. You don’t have to do it all right away. Find the things you think will have the most impact and begin there. Do a little bit each day for your business and for yourself

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coach Academy Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program
• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! Podcast Episode
• ‘The Business of Nurse Coaching’ Specialty Course from the INCA
• Wellness Within with Whitney website
• Book a Consultation or Session with Whitney
• Women’s Circle Sessions
• Whitney’s Instagram
• Whitney’s Facebook
• Whitney’s LinkedIn

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"Nurses are so well suited for psychedelics, and we bring so many skill sets that other disciplines don't, and I don't think any one discipline has it all, but I think we bring a really important piece of the puzzle. And if you think about it, Nurses are with patients in non ordinary states of consciousness, sometimes every day.

If you're a hospice Nurse or working in labor and delivery, if you're in Psych, if you're working with patients, you know, coming in and out of anesthesia, patients with delirium. So many reasons why somebody could be an altered state or even just shock trauma. You know, emergency Nursing.

And Nurses often are with patients for prolonged periods of time. You know, offering their caring, healing presence." ~ Dr. Stephanie Van Hope DNP, RN, NC-BC

Ah-Ha Moments

• Psychedelic medicine is becoming more mainstream, and Nurses are stepping up willingly to lead and support their patients, clients and communities
• Nurses are perfectly aligned to lead and work in psychedelic medicine as they are often with patients in altered states of consciousness throughout a shift
• Sacred medicine, also connected to entheogens, because they can help create a link to God within or to experience God within and the use of rituals and traditions to connect with the Divine
• Nurses, you can absolutely take your passions and your knowledge and use both to create courses, programs, concepts and ideas that you know in your heart and will support fellow humans (and yourself) on life’s journey

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast
• Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program
• Link to Return to Roots Course with Stephanie... https://holisticpsychedelicnurse.com/returntoroots
• AJN Psychedelics Article: Penn, A., Dorsen, C. G., Hope, S., & Rosa, W. E. (2021). CE: Psychedelic-assisted therapy. The American Journal of Nursing, 121(6), 34-40. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33993135/
• Organization for Psychedelic and Entheogenic Nurses (OPENurses): https://openurses.org/
• Holistic Psychedelic Nurse Collective Instagram
• Ep69: Combining Psilocybin Education and Nurse Coaching with CeeCee Campanelli
• Caroline Dorsen: Ceremonial "plant medicine" use and its relationship to recreational drug use: an exploratory study
• Short Film: Balktick, K. (Director). (2021). Death, dying & psychedelics

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Together We Can Stop Shame and Blame in Nursing-Kristy Meyer RN, BSN, NC-BC Highlights

“I feel like self-care is often discussed in a way like, well, you're burned out, it’s because you're not doing self-care, or you're burned out, that means you're not resilient.

And I feel like there's a lot of shame and blame in there, when really, we work in really tough environments, and we see really hard things, and a lot of times we have a lot of defensive mechanisms, I believe, like shielding ourselves from that, not feeling some of the feelings, and that's a good skill at times, because that's what you need to do to get through your work shift.

But internalizing a lot of feelings and not taking care of your own basic needs just leads to a lot of health problems for us as Nurses.” ~Kristy Meyer RN, BSN, NC-BC

Ah Ha Moments

• Shame and blame are evident in discussions about self-care. Like the things you’re doing daily to help yourself aren’t good enough. It’s important to change that narrative
• It’s easier for Nurses to receive assistance when they can connect with a fellow Nurse, especially for health and wellness coaching
• It can be difficult for Nurses to identify they are burned out and need help, because they are sooo good at caring for others
• You are powerful beyond measure and have the capacity to heal

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coach Academy INCCP Course
• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast
• Cultivating Shifts Integrative Health Nurse Coaching and Education
• Kristy's email
• Kristy's Facebook

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“There's this movement to improve more wellness, more lifestyle approaches. And our body was designed to heal itself, if we can only learn to listen to it. And to be able to go out there and help one another and make a difference.” ~Linda Coogan BSN, NC-BC, MSHA, FACHE

Ah Ha Moments

• Lifestyle practices like tai chi, contemplative prayer and more can help you move through the challenges of grief or even life
• WE are the ‘other’ Nurses you’re looking for!
• Using the skills and tools of Integrative Nurse Coaching anywhere you are in the world, shifts the way you show up and how others receive you
• Grief can lead you to new ways of living and loving others
• Who better for advocacy initiatives than a Nurse?!

Links and Resources

Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast

Integrative Nurse Coach Academy

AlaQuest Collaborative for Education

Nurse Linda Kay

AlaQuest Integrative Coaching

Linda's email

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77: Invigorate Your Joy for Nursing- Dena Alberti PhD, RN, NPD-BC, HN-BC, HWNC-BC Highlights

“It's okay to find balance, and to go to different areas and explore... so we can continue to have peace within ourselves, so you can have joy. If you're feeling angst or feeling physically ill and your mind isn't at rest, we can't find joy.” ~ Dena Alberti PhD, RN, NPD-BC, HN-BC, HWNC-BC

Ah-Ha Moments

• Take the time to focus on your own needs. Discover the people, things and experiences that bring you joy!
• Bloom where you’re planted. There are many ways to use Nurse Coaching skills no matter where you work, live or play!
• Try using the following question with your patients, or even your family and friends. “Tell me what’s most important for me to know about you.”
• Explore the STOP method in your practice. Stop, Take a breath, Observe how you’re feeling and Proceed

Resources and Links

• The Art of Nurse Aesthetics blog
• American Holistic Nurses Association
• Barbara Dossey
• Barbara Dossey’s Theory of Integral Nursing
• Susan Luck’s non-profit Earth Rose
• Remembering the Ditto and Mimeograph
• Power of Meaning and Not Knowing Blog
• Integrative Nurse Coaching Certificate Program

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"I finally did find my purpose, and my purpose is to nurture an atmosphere of unlimited potential for those around me. And when I typed those words out, I cried, and I still get emotional about it, because I'm like, you know what?

It doesn't matter what situation, what relationship, what Nursing field I work in. It doesn't even matter if I'm a Nurse, a teacher, a stay at home mom. My purpose can be fulfilled through every single thing that I do. And should be fulfilled through every single thing that I do.

And because I have that purpose, it allows me to say no to things that don't line up with my purpose, and it allows me to say yes to things that do allow me to line up with my purpose." ~Stephanie Page BSN, RN, NC-BC

Ah-Ha Moments

• It's OK, and it's worth it to go inward, explore your true desires and dreams, and even feel vulnerable with it, because that may be what it takes to uncover your true needs
• Your purpose can shift and morph as you transition through many stages of your beautiful life
• It may be fundamental for you to work with a Nurse Coach to help you discover your purpose- why not support a fellow Nurse?
• The Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program and any learning process can help you with your personal health and professional goals

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program
• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast
• How To Discover Your Life Purpose in About 20 Minutes - Steve Pavlina
• Functional Medicine for Nurses Course
• Stephanie's Facebook
• Stephanie's Instagram
• Stephanie’s LinkedIn

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"I am helping Nurses at the bedside and providing them with tools and expertise to change their practice, and make a difference in the things they do every single day. And that's how we should be practicing. It's all not patient care, some of it's the practice environment. And maybe there's best practices for how to create a better work environment." ~Jill Arzouman DNP, RN, ACNS, BC, CMSRN, NC-BC, RYT-200

Ah-Ha Moments

• Evidence-Based Practice uses a set to take research and translate into practice at the bedside, as it can take 15-17 years to get knowledge into actual practice
• You should never have to be faced with a case of the Sunday Scaries. You have choices! And you can make those choices based on what serves you best
• There can be a know-do gap in Nursing. This is the gap in how we translate what is known to work into the care that patients receive.
• You can bloom where you are planted, and practice as a Nurse Coach in the role you are doing today!

Resources and Links

• Bloom Where You are Planted, Nurse Coach! Blog
• Bridging the Know Do Gap in Hospital Care Transitions article
• Getting Rid of Stupid Stuff (GROSS)
• Fuld National Institute of Evidence-Based Practice
• Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program
• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast
• Maintaining Your Momentum: Moving Evidence Into Practice
• Strategies for De-Implementation of Low-Value Care

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"If you don't feel like enough, if you feel like you need something more, start talking to someone about why you feel that way. And really cultivate a sense of awareness. And you're not going to find the answer outside yourself.

You're going to have to go inward and find out, what is leading me to the decisions that I am making right now that seem to bring me to a place that is uncomfortable or that is not aligned with who my true self is?" ~Joanne Turnier DNP, RN, ACNS-BC, HN-BC, HWNC-BC

Ah-Ha Moments

· You can do anything you want to do, at any point in your life!

· You’re never really finished and there’s still time to learn and do what you want to do, no matter what age, or stage you’re in

· The important things you do are always for the greatest and highest good

· You are enough

Links and Resources

• Barbara Dossey’s Theory of Integral Nursing
• Mother Cabrini
• 56: How To Take Nurse Coaching Anywhere!- Deborah McElligott, DNP, ANP-BC, AHN-BC, HWNC-BC, CDE
• 72: Inspiring Nurse Voices At The 2024 INCA Symposium!
• 73: More Inspiring Nurse Voices From The 2024 INCA Symposium

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**73: More Inspiring Nurse Voices from the 2024 INCA Symposium Highlights

Ah Ha Moments**

Welcome and welcome back to the Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast. Episode 72 continues on with the excitement, wisdom and positive energy of the 2024 Integrative Nurse Coach Symposium in Miami Florida.

If you missed episode 72, (you can find it here), it contains all the fun, insights and learnings from Days 1-2, and this episode will continue on from Day 2 to Day 3.

From Alaska to Florida, to Massachusetts to California… Nurses are represented from all over the country and the vibes were high!

Annnnddddd, the enthusiasm and absolute LOVE for Nursing and Nurse Coaching and EACH OTHER continues in abundance! Here we gooooooo!

Special THANKS to the following Nurses for agreeing to be interviewed for our podcast!

• Linda Harms, St Paul, MN
• Desiree Gallamore, Roseville, CA
• Melanie Watson, Hillsborough, NC
• Sheela Abarr, Eagle River, AK
• Maggie Gardener, Seattle, WA
• Love Hawkins, Destin, FL
• Dawn Hawthorne, Orlando, FL
• Susan Cacciola, Sparta, NJ
• Nicole Vienneau, Tucson, AZ
• Justina Green, Sacramento, CA
• Rita Linnenkamp, Arnold, MD
• Brittany Jarvis, Athens, OH
• Dena Alberti, Long Island, NY
• Christine Eaches, Huntington, NY
• Ronald Kanka, Miami, FL

Links and Resources

• INCs in ACTION! Episode 72: Inspiring Nurse Voices
• Journal of Nursing Regulation (July 2019) The NCSBN National Nursing Guidelines for Medical Marijuana
• Nurse Coach Certificate Program
• The Canny Nurse Certificate Program
• Functional Medicine for Nurses
• The Business of Nurse Coaching
• Hypnosis for Nurses
• Yoga for Nurses
• Mindfulness Meditation for Nurses
• End of Life Coaching

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EEEEEEE! I am so excited to share this episode with you, because it includes the voices of many inspiring, wise and wonderful Nurses and Nurse Coaches from all over the country.

From Alaska to Florida, to Massachusetts to California... Nurses were represented from all over the country and the vibes were high!

There was SO much positive energy throughout every second and we were treated like the queens and kings we are, with nutritious, scrumptious healing meals, energetic and knowledgeable speakers and were privy to so many heart opening experiences throughout each day!

It was an experience that is still humming in my heart and soul.

Special THANKS to the following Nurses for agreeing to be interviewed for our podcast!

• Donna Leno Gordon, Brooklyn, NY
• Jackie Hernandez, Miami, FL
• Kristy Meyer, Eugene, OR
• Christy Cook, Bemidji, MN
• Angie Maguire, Oak Park, IL
• Amie Jones, Council Bluffs, IA
• Rachel Horne, Cincinnati, OH
• Mandy Feliciano, Springfields, MA
• Lana Mikhaylova, Fort Lauderdale, FL
• Alexandra, Morales, Miami, FL
• Christine Ross, Eagle River, AK
• Chelsea McGee, Detroit, MI
• Lisa Ostler, Olympia, WA
• Marilyn Torres-Sierra, Phoenix, AZ
• Constance Powers, Phoenix, AZ
• Rebecca Meyer, Grants, NM
• Christina Jean-Louis, Miami, FL
• Bincy Reginold, Chicago, IL
• Tyrone Smith, Shreveport, LA
• Arneka Smith, Shreveport, LA

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“…you need space in order for energy to be exchanged and to hear what we're saying, and hear what the other person said. Historically, I've wanted to fill that space really.

So, it's still practice for me as well. I still have to work on it. But just trying to lean into that. And, allow that space to exist so people get the benefit of hearing themselves talk too.” ~Lindsay Frey MA, BSN, RN, HWNC-BC, HNB-BC, CDCES

Ah Ha Moments

• There is so much power in listening to a person’s story, especially when we quiet our own agendas
• We’ve come leaps and bounds in talking about self-care in Nursing schools, and yet, we still have a ways to go in implementing self-care into daily Nursing life
• Listen deeply to yourself and your needs and desires- listening may take you across the country, or even closer to yourself
• There is vulnerability in silence. Allowing space for whatever will come instead of trying to fill it
• Nurse Coaching can be used in all parts of Nursing practice, from Nurse to Nurse to partnering with patients using insulin pumps. There are no limitations to it.

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast
• Integrative Nurse Coach Academy Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program
• Lindsay's LinkedIn profile
• 68: Trust The Whispers- Judy Ratliff MA, RN, NC-BC
• Functional Medicine for Nurses Course
• Frey LM, Ratliff JL. The Personal and Professional Experiences of Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program Graduates: A Pilot Study. J Holist Nurs. 2018 Jun;36(2):134-144. doi: 10.1177/0898010117704516. Epub 2017 Apr 20. PMID: 29172908.

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Ah Ha Moments

“I am a different person because of what I went through, and I want to preach to other people not to take their health for granted. And not to live on autopilot. Because this life is just too short.” ~Nicole Monteserrato BSN, RN, NC-BC

• Nursing the Nurse. Who to better serve Nurses, than fellow Nurses?
• Living on autopilot is not serving you. Take a chance for you!
• Feel the fear and do it anyway! Take a chance and do something you never thought you’d do!
• Create programs, courses, gatherings, meet ups, and other events that make you feel excited and elevate your vibrations
• Share YOU with the world!
• Nurses are creating safe spaces for people to learn, grow, connect, feel authentic and brave

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coach Academy Nurse Coach Certificate Program
• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast
• Integrative Health and Wellness Assessment
• Nicole's Instagram
• Nicole’s email: nmonteserrato@inursecoach.com
• Nicole's website
• John Piazza DeDonatis podcast episode

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"Nurses are interested. Nurses want to use this medicine. They want to explore this medicine. They want to understand this medicine. And inevitably, they want to share this medicine. Through our experience, we, minute for minute, spend more time with vulnerable people— not just vulnerable people, but vulnerable people in their most vulnerable times— than nearly any other profession." ~Chandra "CeeCee" Campanelli, RN, HN-BC, HWNC-BC

Ah-Ha Moments

• Nurse Coaching and Holistic Nursing allows us to be fully present and open for whole-person wellness and Nursing
• Layering on our foundation of Nursing we can do anything that calls to us! Explore all our options before giving up on Nursing
• Use your voice as an advocate to speak up for things you believe in. Nurses are the most trusted profession on the planet, use that as your power to speak up! Nurses also can explain complex topics simply, for the layperson to understand
• Psilocybin continues to be a criminalized plant medicine, yet there is slow movement to potentially de-criminalize it in some states
• Just as Nurses need to be aware of and understand the implications of cannabis, so too should we be aware of the implications of psylocibin
• There seems to be a psycho emotional component of using psylocibin, that can be mitigated by good facilitators, and Nurses, if they choose can be those facilitators
• Some benefits of psylocibin are, neurogenesis with dendritic connections, reduced symptoms for Parkinson’s, post concussive syndrome, OCD, improved outcomes in terms of anxiety, depression, addiction

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast
• How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
• Nurse Coaching: Integrative Approaches for Health and Wellbeing
• CeeCee's website
• CeeCee's TikTok
• CeeCee's Facebook

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“As Nurse coaches, we often in coaching sessions, or when we're talking to people, we often really want to see those big aha moments, or those clients come up with these phenomenal, smart goals.

And sometimes, especially when we're Nurse Coach students, we think that maybe a session wasn't overly productive if we didn't have those.

But it really isn't about those grandiose, big aha moments, it really is about those subtle shifts that we often are a part of, but we don't realize that we're a part of when we're working with our clients.” ~ Judy Ratliff MA, RN, NC-BC

Ah-Ha Moments

• It’s OK to not have all the answers all the time. Listen for the whispers and follow them. Trust.
• Bring joy into your world in whatever way you can- even being a clown!
• Facing yourself is some of the most important, impactful work you will do
• Patients are number one, yes, and so are you!
• It’s imperative that Nurses understand the basics of cannabis and become informed on this topic and how it affects our culture, our patients and the practice of Nursing
• Death and dying are integral pieces of life and living

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast
• CannyNurse program
• Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
• End of Life Coaching with Jan Booth
• Judy’s email
• Judy’s LinkedIn

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"I think everybody has their own intuitive gifts. And it's something that you get to just connect with and then practice. I think everybody has their own gifts and their own... call it body wisdom, call it intuition, these different ways, just like having a sense about something beyond what you can see with the eye." ~Dr. Caitlin Jarvis DNP, ARNP, FNP-BC

Ah-has

• We all have innate intuition, and can develop these skills by leaning in to them
• You can combine Integrative Nurse Coaching with your passions in anything
• Tune in to what you need. Take a break. Take a week off. Do what you need to do for yourself
• Medical intuitive skills can be learned
• Are you over-giving? How can you turn this off, and give equally to yourself and your patients and family?

Links and Resources

Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast
Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program

Integrative Health and Wellness Assessment

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"I noticed, a lot of the times, I would check out after work. I would find myself after a hard day, pulling over to get some beer or wine, coming home, having dinner and then just wanting to shut everything out and be alone with my wine while my husband would read to my son and put him to bed...

Now that I'm more present, I've noticed a shift within our family. And I think my son has noticed how much better it feels for everybody without alcohol in the house." ~Devon Donkin BSN, RN, NC-BC, Certified Gray Area Drinking Coach

Ah-Ha Moments

• Working 12-hour shifts is taxing. It’s OK to search for something outside of bedside Nursing to support you and your family life
• Shifts in wellbeing don’t have to be or feel dramatic, instead they can be simple and easy
• Alcohol has negative impacts on health, like hormone disruption, blood pressure, energy levels, gut microbiome, brain shrinkage, relationships, and sleep. It’s linked to certain cancers, high blood pressures and mental health and other health issues
• Alcohol is a highly addictive substance, so it is important to balance our body chemistry through lifestyle choices like mindfulness, better sleep, balancing blood sugars
• Gray Area Drinkers consume a handful of drinks per week and are doing this regularly. They are moderating their drinking regularly and it may be consuming to monitor and manage this behavior
• It’s important to support the nervous system and body’s biochemistry when one begins to abstain from alcohol
• Sleep, exercise, sunlight, breathwork, eating nourishing foods, drinking enough water will help support your nervous system and body’s biochemistry
• Creating new habits and rituals to support your journey into sobriety are, tell people about it, get into nature, try movement, be curious, be and feel into your body, hug someone, hug your pet, notice when you feel good, embracing feel good moments

Links and Resources

• American Holistic Nurse Credentialing Corporation and board certification for Nurse Coaching
• Nurse Coaching Integrative Approaches to Health and Wellbeing Dossey, Luck, Schaub textbook
• The “Gray Area” of Consumption Between Moderate and Risk Drinking*
• Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2020-2025
• Jolene Park Gray Drinking TED Talk

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65: Feeding Compassion: Exploring Intuitive Eating in Nursing-Tiffany North, BSN, RN, INC, Certified Intuitive Eating Professional Highlights "Intuitive eating is really about letting go of shoulds around food, letting go of this food is good, this food is bad, and instead, looking at food from a body attunement lens. So how does this food feel for me in my body? How does eating in this way feel for me and my body? What are the underlying needs associated with various body signals?" ~Tiffany North, BSN, RN, INC, Certified Intuitive Eating Professional

Ah-Ha Moments

• Nurses can do sooo many things with their careers!
• Nursing careers can help us shift into different directions as we learn more about ourselves, and sometimes we don’t know exactly where it will lead us and we still trust
• Learning to slow down can feel very uncomfortable
• Food and relationships with food can be a very common area of focus for every human being
• People’s relationship with food
• Intuitive eating is letting go of ‘shoulds’ around food, or, this food is good, or this food is bad.
• Nurses are layering in all types of education, experiences and creativity into our Nursing practice in safe and appropriate ways
• Our society is pressurized with ‘should’s about food, body image and relationships with food and our bodies
• Intuitive eating helps us look internally to see how past experiences affect us today and help us unravel and reconnect to ourselves and
• It can be very powerful to ask your body what you’re experiencing. What sensations are you experiencing? When we can listen and be curious with compassion and kindness, we can draw on our own wisdom
• Follow the whisper, honor that yes, and you are the person who is charge of your own satisfaction and honoring yourself

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coach Academy Nurse Coach Certificate Program
• Coach Tiffany RN website
• Coach Tiffany’s Quiz
• How to become an intuitive eating counsellor blog

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64: Regulating the Nervous System as Nurse Coaches- Ellie Monjoseph, RN, BSN, NC-BC Highlights

“Are you fighting something? Are you fleeing? Are you, what's called, collapse or shutdown, and just trying to figure out where we're at with our nervous system, so we can support ourselves?

It’s plugging in some of the missing pieces that an unresolved stress takes away from us. It kind of masks or clouds our vision of ‘where am I?’. Because when you think of when you're connected, when you're joy-filled, when you're present, you can make decisions very easily.” ~ Ellie Monjoseph BSN, RN, NC-BC

Ah-Ha Moments

• Nursing experience gives you a front row to witnessing humanity
• Listen to where you are being called… you can go in whatever direction you choose
• It’s important to continue to do your own inner work to support yourself, to understand yourself more deeply
• Fear, imposter syndrome, people pleasing, and the inner critic can sound really loud when we don’t address our unique, deep needs
• An inner critic is typically a voice that is not yours, from your past
• Connecting to your heart space, a purposeful pause, to connect with yourself. What do you need right now? What does your heart say right now? This voice is a calm, kind voice that will help you move into the next space that you need right now.
• It’s a power move to ask for help! It’s vulnerable to do, but it creates a cushion of a supportive community around us
• What is this urge to flee? The sympathetic system, fight, flee, shutting down… wanting to change jobs, move, give up, etc. Bringing awareness to self is imperative to understand and recognize how we’re responding so we can take a purposeful step that is truly best for you
• Healing begins when we realize we’re interconnected

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program with the Integrative Nurse Coach Academy
• Integrative and Holistic Specialty Programs
• Free to Live Wellness - Ellie's website
• Ellie on Instagram

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63: Nurses Overcoming Addiction- Kacie Salas, BSN, RN, NC-BC Highlights

"My coping mechanism was, drinking and using. I think symptoms of cumulative caretaking trauma are shame, guilt, anxiety, grief. Right? Once I started to learn that language, I realized that it had been something I've really suffered with my whole life.

Through Nurse Coaching and all the tools that I learned in my Nurse Coaching program, I was able to start to guide my private clients and my debriefing clients through that process where I think, again, just opening up the conversation, you know?

And making people feel like they're less alone. They really just want to feel seen, heard and validated. And not feel alone." ~Kacie Salas, BSN, RN, NC-BC

Ah-Ha Moments

• Addiction as a coping mechanism is often hidden within the Nursing world because of shame, and because we are held to such high standards in the public eye
• Sobriety exploration can create hope and healing in your life
• We’ve got to stay together and open up the conversations because we can heal with each other once we realize we are not alone
• Cumulative caretaking trauma is the trauma experienced after repeated exposure to traumatic events over short periods of time
• Say YES! When things come your way, even when you tell all the stories in your head that say you can’t do that thing! The Universe wants you to be successful and thrive
• Nurse Coaching brings back joy into your Nursing career
• Nurse Coaching integrates so many facets of Nursing and modernizes Nursing!
• Return to your healing roots by connecting Nursing with Integrative Nurse Coaching™
• Regulating our nervous system so we can build a new baseline to heal and support ourselves
• Integrative Nurse Coaches™ are using many healing modalities in their practices from EFT to hypnosis, to aromatherapy, to cannabis, to sound healing, the world is open to you!

Resources and Links

• Debriefing the Frontlines
• Sobriety Support through Debriefing the Frontlines… The Light Ahead
• Hypnosis for Nurses Specialty Course
• 48: Debriefing to Heal Our Nurses: Tara Ryan Kosmas, MSN, RN, NC-BC, CHSE, SOAR podcast
• Integrative Nurse Coach™ Certificate Program

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62: Group Coaching in Hospitals: Healing Together- John Piazza DeDonatis Highlights

Ah-Ha Moments

• There may be a time you feel an ‘itch’ to do something else. What would happen if you decided to follow it?
• Do some research about Nurse Coaching, especially if you’re on the fence. You deserve to look deeper into the things you are curious about
• Group Coaching allows for more touch and connection with more humans
• Try not to fall into the ‘advice trap’… instead listen, ask curious questions, allow the person to find their own answers… and ASK them if they want the information before you bombard them with advice or the resources
• As an Integrative Nurse Coach, what do you call yourself? How do you explain what you do to really connect with the person you’re speaking with?
• It’s tough to set your price point… and you CAN do that. What are worth? You’re priceless.
• Keep your heart open for all the possibilities around you! Say Yes to experiences, opportunities to work with clients you may not think you want, as they can become your client!
• Check in with your Nurse Residency Programs as opportunities to implement Nurse Coaching skills and tools.
• Tell people about what you’re doing, they will support you!

Links and Resources

INC’s in ACTION! Podcast 59: Passionately Growing as a Nurse Coach- Aaron Williams, BSN, RN, HWNC-BC

Integrative Nurse Coach Academy Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program

Michael Bungay Stainer on the Advice Trap and Staying Curious Just a Little Longer with Brene Brown

Lifestyle Transformation RN website

Email John at transformationrn@gmail.com

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61: Vulnerability is Courage- Christie L. Kaywood, RN, BSN, NC Highlights

"Over time, healing and different things like that helped me. And also, with the vulnerability, it's like, these are my goals. And how can I achieve them if I just stay in the same place? How can I achieve them if I don't step up and step out of my comfort zone?" ~Christie L. Kaywood, RN, BSN, NC

Ah-Ha Moments

• Recognizing you need wellness or healing can be very vulnerable. It’s hard to show up for yourself when you really need it!
• Asking for help can feel vulnerable! There are many local (and free) resources to support you in your journey, in whatever way you choose to travel
• You don’t always have to have the answers
• Social anxiety can hold us back, reach out to a counsellor to get help, so you can be in full presence in the amazing person you are!
• Resistance is real! You can move yourself forward, and you also must acknowledge the resistance to move yourself forward
• Reiki energy work can be used for self-care for Nurses
• Auras, crystals and essential oils can help you with your own wellbeing, as well as your patients and clients
• Find the things you’ve struggled with and have had success with as these may be the clients that will be attracted to you
• Try a Nurse Coaching session!

Links and Resources

Christiel Holistic Healing Center

Nurses Lived Experiences of Reiki for Self-Care

Thriving African American Small Business

Urban League

Ep8: Creating Community To Fill The Gap- Jodi Tansky, BSN, RN, HWNC-BC

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Caring for the Caregivers- Renee Panec, BSN, RN, HWNC-BC, CCM, CPHQ Highlights

"It brings up a lot of feelings, too, in caregivers in terms of not only overwhelm, but they may be sad about their current situation. They may experience feelings of... really of grief, of that loss of the life that they anticipated living. And now it's going to be a very different kind of life.

And it's often unacknowledged. From whatever kind of life they've been living, whether they were professionals and had a professional job, or if they were a mom home with the kids, it's still huge." ~Renee Panec, BSN, RN, HWNC-BC, CCM, CPHQ

Ah-ha Moments

• What happens to the caregiver when a patient is discharged home, and they must do everything else they were doing AND care for their loved one?
• Are you pouring from an empty cup? What can you do to love and support yourself? What can you do for you?
• It’s ok to ‘bloom where you’re planted’ and use your skills exactly where you are, without feeling you need to change anything.
• Not sure where to begin, or who you want to work with? Begin where you are. You have experience with something that others may not have.
• What stories have you been telling yourself that hold you back? How could those stories be shifted to support you and what you want today?
• How can you nurture yourself to grow into who you want to be?
• Embrace your power Nurse… you have healing abilities filled with love, give it to yourself and then share it with others.

Links and Resources

Join Caring 4 Caregivers Facebook Group here

Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program

Listening with HEART blog

Bloom Where you’re Planted Nurse Coach blog

Whole Health Nursing, Inc.

Email: Renee@wholehealthnursing.com

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59: Passionately Growing as a Nurse Coach- Aaron Williams, BSN, RN, HWNC-BC Highlights

Ah-Ha Moments

"It's your creation. And you can take it any direction you want. I'm taking it to the gardening, the nature side, the reconnecting with spirit, reconnecting people like me, who get in their head and think too much and don't, you know, don't get in their heart or their body and listen and pay attention to what's going on and what you really need." ~Aaron Williams, BSN, RN, HWNC-BC

• How does the phrase ‘not knowing’ sit in your heart? What could happen when you allow having to know it all, to separate from your all-knowing personality?
• There are many ways to share your gifts in Nursing and in your community
• Find the things that fill your soul, and allow you to heal
• Hands in the soil… grounding, earthing, growing, forest bathing, connecting spirit to nature
• Take a course in gardening, volunteer at a community garden and/or co-op to learn more about growing your own food, and how getting hands in soil and nurturing can help you heal
• Healing Touch and energy work can open possibility, we are all energy
• Resistance is real, it can slow you down, lean in, be courageous
• Roots vs. wings… at different times in your life you'll be grounded and other times you’ll need to fly

Links and Resources

Elevated Nurse Coaching, LLC website

More about Wetiko

Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program

Canny Nurse Program -Cannabis Nursing Program

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Trusting Your Intuition as a Nurse Coach- Love Hawkins, MSN, APRN, WHNP-BC, CNM, NC-BC Highlights

"It's such a powerful thing when you get more attuned to your own intuition. And you start to learn how to trust yourself and what is good for you. Not what's good for anybody else and having everybody else tell you what's good for you. You know from the core of your being what's good for you." ~Love Hawkins, MSN, APRN, WHNP-BC, CNM, NC-BC

Ah-Ha Moments

• You are smart enough to do anything you want to do!
• There are SO MNAY opportunities within Nursing. Ebb, morph, change your pathway, you can do anything!
• Be patient, listen to your heart. No matter what happens, you will find your way
• There are many ways to use your gifts on this Earth, follow your intuition, and do your part
• Cannabis is part of life, and is being utilized by many people in the world. It's in the Nurses best interest and professional responsibility to educate themselves about cannabis and how it relates to pharmacology and overall health and disease
• Silence is imperative to healing, to healing, to understanding life
• Come back to your breath, it will help you take the next step with purpose and ease

Links and Resources

Canny Nurse Program
Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program
Nurse Coaching Integrative Approaches to Health and Wellbeing textbook
What is a Cannabis Nurse? Blog

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Go! Do it Afraid Nurse Coach! Ashley Hagood, BSN, RN, NC-BC Highlights

"Go. Do it. Make it happen. Do it afraid, go. Chase that light, whatever it is that you're inspired to do. Whatever calling that's been placed on your heart, take the chance, take the leap of faith, go, make it happen. Resources will come up along the way. Tools, people, wisdom, knowledge, all of that will come along the way." ~Ashley Hagood, BSN, RN, NC-BC

Ah-ha Moments

• Discover the gentleness in waiting. This can create an openness to see resources around you
• Thank you to all who have supported us along the way
• God calls us to share our light to help us through adversity
• Keep going, despite adversity, ask for help
• Nurses are so innovative and caring
• Pushing things to the side doesn’t mean they go away
• Ask for, and receive help when things are too heavy
• Slow down to appreciate things around you
• Look at the step right in front of you, be present. These steps may allow you to come out of the cycle of fight and flight, and into a cycle of rest, and safety and trust
• Go!!! Do it afraid! Be brave, show up and take a chance. Resources will come along to support you. Trust.

Links and Resources

Mount Kilamanjaro

Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program

The Business of Nurse Coaching
Integrative Nurse Coach Academy

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How to Take Nurse Coaching Anywhere!- Deborah McElligott, DNP, ANP-BC, AHN-BC, HWNC-BC, CDE Highlights

"Coaching adds the component of not knowing. It was so powerful for me because as an NP, you had to be the expert. You know, as a Nurse, you have to be an expert. You can't give the wrong medication, you'll kill somebody.

You have to be perfect. And this not knowing part of coaching, where you can hold the space for your client, your patient, your peer, and help them discover their best way of becoming who they need to be, was really powerful. You know, knowing that you can be an expert, but you can also be a not knowing person at the same time." ~Deborah McElligott, DNP, ANP-BC, AHN-BC, HWNC-BC, CDE

Ah-Ha Moments

• Nurse Coaching eliminates labels, and teaches us to hold space, and to ‘not know'’
• You can be an expert and not know at the same time
• The skills of Nurse Coaching become part of how you practice as a Nurse, and you will use these skills every day
• If you are looking for a place to practice Coaching and holistic Nursing look at your system, what are they doing, what are their needs, and how can you help them?
• You can simplify some holistic modalities to teach them to your system, or in the community
• You can teach many things through the ‘coaching approach’, as opposed to the ‘telling approach’
• You don’t have to wait for a position to open up, instead, create it for yourself!
• Imagery practices can open up so many healing opportunities for yourself
• Journal questions… what surprised you today? What inspired you? What touched your heart?

Links and Resources

Dossey & Keegan's Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice: A Handbook for Practice 8th Edition

Podcast 54: How To Integrate Energy With Nurse Coaching- Sandra Rousso, MSN, RN, HWNC-BC

Dr Barbara Dossey

The Theory of Integral Nursing by Dr Barbara Dossey

Susan Luck

Integrative Health and Wellness Assessment

Analysis of the Theory of Integrative Nurse Coaching article

Integrative Health and Wellness Assessment Tool article

Instrument Development of Integrative Health and Wellness Assessment™ article

American Nurses Association Code of Ethics for Nurses, Provision 5

Health promotion in nurses: is there a healthy nurse in the house? (2009)

The effect of a holistic pro

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“We see this a lot in oncology too, where we're seeing a lot of use of hypnosis in even outpatient oncology, Nurses learning hypnotic language and using it there. Patients starting to feel more supported. Like, I knew you supported me before, but when we add that extra layer of using our communication styles with more conscious effort, our patients feel it, they draw more meaning from those experiences.” ~Christy Cowgill BCH, RN, CRNA, MBA, CHBE, NC-BC

Ah-Ha Moments

• Placebo and beliefs are powerful and can have reduced negative symptomology
• Nocebo is a negative suggestion, like side effects, headaches, nausea, weight gain etc.
• Elimination of or creating positive flips in language and words will support our patients more effectively
• Hypnosis is a state of being conscious and focused and taking in suggestions as if they are true
• Adding in positivity to neutralize the negatives helps support full healing
• Words are important for the meaning you understand for your healing
• Neuro-linguistic programming in offering feedback in the workplace with a “Feedback Sandwich” 1. Share the positive, 2. Growing need (negative), 3. End with a positive
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Links and Resources

Integrative Nurse Coach Academy Nurse Certificate Program
Podcast 22: Hypnosis and the Power of Words with Christy Cowgill

American Holistic Nurses Association

Hypnosis for Nurses Course

Contact an INCA Admissions Specialist for your free call

Enter into Calm Christy's website

YouTube What every nurse should know

A pilot study of trained ICU doulas providing early psychological support to critically ill patientshttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34930440/

Dr David Spiegel and Hypnosis Research at Stanford https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/david-spiegel

Dr Milton Erickson and His contributions to Hypnosis https://www.erickson-foundation.org/

Helen Erickson and Margaret Erickson (related to Milton) in Nursing Space https://nursing-theory.org/theories-and-models/erickson-modeling-and-role-modeling-theory.php

Dr James Esdaille (1008-1859)- I know a wiki link… no internet back then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Esdaile Techniques still used in modern hypnosis and Hypnobirthing®

National Guild of Hypnotists https://www.ngh.net/

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How to Integrate Energy with Nurse Coaching- Sandra Rousso, MSN, RN, HWNC-BC Highlights

“And that's where we get into that fixed thinking, the black and white thinking, And I use this thing where I say, well, it's not an "or" it's an "and". It's both. It can be both. You can be happy, and you can be sad at the same time. Similar to what I was talking to you when I was with you guys when my brother passed.

Well, I was really sad, however, there were moments there that were just joyful for me. It was both. We're capable, our humaneness is capable. That's wholism to me, that's experiencing the whole. And sometimes I spell holistic Nurse with a W.” ~Sandy Rousso, MSN, RN, HWNC-BC

Ah-Ha's

• Nurses practice under their own license. We are not practicing medicine; we are practicing Nursing
• Going where you are called, despite what others think, will bring you great joy. Go there
• What is your spiritual business plan? Have you considered this concept?
• “Sometimes you don’t have all the answers, you just know you need to begin” Dr. Barbara Dossey
• When you discover your passion, and connect to it, you will inspire others to find their passion
• Share what you know, it will help others blossom
• When we realize we have choice, we realize we are free
• You have an inner still point, and you can find it and return to it

Links and Resources

American Holistic Nurses Association

Dr Barbara Dossey

Dr Andrew Weil

Integrative Nurse Coach Academy Nurse coach Certificate Program

Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! Podcast 17- Find Your Nursing Soulmate: Barbara Dossey

What is Amma Therapy?

Sandyrousso.com

Theory of Integral Nursing, Dr Barbara Dossey

Transpersonal Nurse Coach course by the Huntington Meditation and Imagery with Richard and Bonney Schaub

Books:

Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life by Shakti Gawain

Staying Well with Guided Imagery by Belleruth Naparstek

Don’t Bite the Hook by Pema Chodron

Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav

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53: Mindfulness Based Stillness for Nurses- Louise Bobbitt, RN, PgDipNurs Highlights

“Being fully present, allows me to get into touch with the wonders of life and the wonders of everything around. And I find that incredibly nourishing, and I find that incredibly healing. And I know, from the 10 years or more that I've been doing mindfulness, that I've become a stronger person in myself.” ~Louise Bobbitt, RN, PgDipNurs

Ah-Has

• Mindfulness brings us to the present moment, not worrying about the past, or being anxious about the future
• Mindfulness can help with suffering, anxiety, emotions hidden away, forgiveness, how to recognize feelings and how to recognize and be with them
• Mindfulness helps with personal honesty, instead of hiding from self
• Mindfulness practices lead to gratitude
• Mindfulness extends into personal and professional life, relationships, and decision making
• Learn quick mindfulness practices to support you at work, like rapid relaxation and mini meditations and 3 minute breathing space

Resources and Links

Louise Bobbitt’s website in New Zealand: Mind Your Body

Mindfulness Based Stillness Meditation for Nurses Course

Provision 5 of the Nursing Code of Ethics

Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program

Nurse Coaching: Integrative Approaches for Health and Wellbeing textbook with mindfulness practice scripts

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Connecting Hearts with Nurse Coaching- Kim Karraker, RN, NC-BC Highlights

Ah-Has

“We need to teach our Nurses how to find this peace within during stressful times, and it's really just breathing, it's breath work. It's getting our heart electrical rhythm under control, our heart rate variability, and in sync with our emotions which come from the mind.

I know for me, in the critical care world, I definitely didn't stop to breathe during my stressful times. But learning to take a moment and work on breathing and breathing into the emotions of the heart, which are appreciation, caring, love, whatever those good emotions are, finding those and breathing into that emotion.” ~Kim Karracker RN, NC-BC

• Experiencing what it’s like to live with a chronic disease becomes a very authentic way to connect to the needs and desires of patients and clients experiencing something similar
• HeartMath is an easy and powerful tool to use to help clients connect to their own wisdom
• Food is one element of whole-body healing, and Nurse Coaches are using food to help their clients find health
• All Nurses should take Nurse Coach training to help support them in their stressful jobs
• Nurse Coaching tools and skills will help support Nurses of all specialties prevent burnout and reduce turnover

Resources and Links

HARMONY Method

HeartMath

Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program Info here!

Kardia Healing House website

Functional Medicine for Nurses Specialty Course

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What it’s like to be a Nurse Coach Practicum Student- Holly Blankenship, MSN, RN Highlights

Ah-Ha's

“The practicum is super cool, because I'm getting a little taste of what it's going to be like to have my business and how I want it to be. I get to be creative and provide space for people… and I get to see whole changes with them and goals being reached during it.” ~Holly Blankenship, MSN, RN

• Nurses can have health changes because of the stress of death, grief, suffering, the shift work, and extreme measures of caring for others over themselves.
• We are all connected as humans, through human, real life experiences.
• It’s OK to work with a therapist and make yourself the number 1 priority!
• Is being a ‘people pleaser’ really serving you?
• Whole person wellness, real foods, solid sleep and rest, acupuncture, movement, stress reduction, and caring for
• There is a big difference between counseling and coaching. Coaching helps people reflect and dig deep to create goals and plans of action
• Self-efficacy must be built, reinforced and supported in order to make change
• Nurse Coach Practicum is challenging, and yet, oh so cool and amazing, in personal and professional growth.

Resources and Links

Barbara Dossey

Theory of Integral Nursing by Barbara Dossey

Nurse Coaching: Integrative Approaches for Health and Wellbeing Textbook

Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program

Holly's LinkedIn

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Thriving with a Nurse Coach Action Mindset-Kimberly Foster, BSN, RN, HN-BC, HWNC-BC, HMCP, Sacred Geometry Energy Healer Highlights

“To be able to pause and say, no, this is the course of action I want to take, was a really powerful tool that I had to learn and to actually use-- the whole action mindset.” ~Kimberly Foster, BSN, RN, HN-BC, HWNC-BC, HMCP, Sacred Geometry Energy Healer Highlights

Ah-Has

• Nurses are juggling so many people, things and needs. How can you step back and create space for you within all of it? It’s OK to do that.
• It’s hard to set boundaries, and you can still set boundaries!
• How can you share your obvious gifts with the world?
• Who is your influence as a Nurse and a Human?
• What shifts can you make to function from a state of overflow?
• Holistic Nursing and Nurse Coaching practices, create space for you to just be

Resources and Links

Barbara Dossey, Co-Founder of International Nurse Coach Association/Integrative Nurse Coach Academy

Jean Watson

Kimberly Foster website

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Ah-Has
“There's so much that needs to be done, so much change that needs to happen. How will we ever do it? And then I step back and it's like, one Nurse at a time, one situation at a time, one ripple will start making that change. And then it doesn't seem so overwhelming, I think.” ~Karen Day, MSN, RN, NC-BC

• We can make change, one Nurse at a time, one situation at a time
• Our younger Nurses are training younger Nurses as preceptors, teachers, and mentors. Many of them don’t have lots of experience. How can we support them with more grace, acceptance and resources
• Nursing needs to create a culture shift to truly support each other without judgement. We can do this by honoring our past, learning from it, acknowledging it and shifting towards more self-care, resources, and each other
• The pressure of perfection does not always support us and can be a pathway to burnout, and Nurses leaving the profession
• Creating sacred spaces, where anything goes, where anything can be said, where it is safe to share and discuss. This is different than a route cause analysis, or a clinical debrief, however… there is potential to create a sacred space in those areas too!
• Acknowledge the strengths in each other. Acknowledge that you see another Nurse struggling, and ask them how you can help
• What can help you feel better? Mindfulness? Movement? Time alone? Time with friends? Going outside?
• Including Nurse Coaching in all Nursing curriculum will support Nurses better on their journey

Resources and Links

Bloom Where you are Planted Nurse Coach blog

Code Lavender

Create a Sacred Virtual Space Blog

Ep24: Stop Burnout In Nursing School- Janice Lanham, MS, RN, CNEcl podcast

Karen Day Wellness

Integrative Nurse Coach Academy Nurse Coach Certificate Program

Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast

The Sacred Space: Using Stages of Change Model With Motivational Interviewing to Promote Patient-Centered Healing NIH article

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Debriefing to Heal Nurses- Tara Ryan Kosmas, MSN, RN, NC-BC, CHSE, SOAR

“It’s the backbone of how Debriefing the Front Lines kind of defines Nurse Coaching.
We as humans are this collection of stories, and Nurse Coaching enables the client to connect with themselves through this intentional dialogue that creates meaning and acceptance in the story, during the good, the bad, and the painful parts.” ~Tara Ryan Kosmas, MSN, RN, NC-BC, CHSE, SOAR

• We must talk about the suffering and trauma we experience as Nurses, even if it is difficult
• Alone is no longer enough. Find colleagues, organizations and people who support you, pay for debriefing and coaching if your organization does not offer it
• It’s time to put yourself fist, in a loving, no-judgment way
• Cumulative caretaking trauma is a result of ongoing, overexposure, day in and day out, to abnormal and traumatic events, with no time for acknowledgement, discussion, processing, and recovery, that leads to emotional, physical, and spiritual suffering.
• Part of the trauma Nurses face as a result of COVID, was a feeling that our systems betrayed us. For example, lack of PPE and resources, Nurses having to work at the bedside while other professions did not, drastically changing protocols without much notice
• Psychological first aid, peer support and debriefing can be offered by Nurse Coaches to prevent burnout and improve turnover

Nurse Coaching: Integrative Approaches for Health and Wellbeing Textbook
Debriefing the Front Lines, Inc
Integrative Nurse Coach Academy Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program

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How to Unlearn and Relearn in Nurse Coaching- Pam Melson, MSN, RN, NC Highlights

Ah-Has

• Learning, unlearning and relearning allows opportunity and possibility to unfold
• You don’t have to know it all, and it’s ok to change the way you do things at any point in your life
• Nurse Coaching is a beautiful beginning for healing whatever you want to support or heal
• All Nursing schools should have a Nurse Coaching component in the curricula
• Healers are more resilient when they acknowledge this ability within themselves
• Be patient, be still, allow alignment, as it always seems to align
• We are all just walking each other home
• Nurse Coaching is a means to find the home that is inside you
• The art and science of Nursing, plus the magic of Nurse Coaching
• Nurse Coaching listens to what the patient wants. It’s not that we make the goals happen, we walk beside the client to support them in all their desires

Resources and Links

Integrative Nurse Coach Academy Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program

The Guest House a poem by Rumi

The Advice Trap by Michael Bumbay

Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring

Harmony Hill Retreat Center

Email Pam at pmelson@inursecoach.com

Book a free call with an INCA Admissions here

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Letting Go of Critical Care to Find Nurse Coaching: Nicole Vienneau MSN, RN, NC-BC

“I said, “Well, I'm a Holistic Nurse.” And I've never said that before. Because I've always been a Critical Care Nurse. But through this journey of Nurse Coaching, I have uncovered a deeper way of being a Nurse.” ~Nicole A. Vienneau MSN, RN, NC-BC

Ah-Has

• When Nurses come together, anything can happen
• Make the ask. See the no, as a next opportunity. You are never stuck
• It’s important to know that stories and their meanings can change over time based on new learnings and understandings
• When you shift your thought process to what could become, your choices become limitless
• Nurses can ebb and flow into different specialties based on their needs, desires and interests
• Symbolism and meaning are important to each person’s story and a Nurse coach can learn more about their clients when they ask open-ended questions and offer silence and deep empathy
• What can happen when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and open to the possibilities?
• It’s ok to ask for what you want and what you need

Articles and Other Resources

Battling Burnout with Nurse Coaching Vienneau and Ervin article

Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! Podcast with Shakira Franklyn

Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! Podcast with Barbara Dossey- Find Your Nursing Soul Mate

Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! Podcast with Barbara Dossey Energy of Your Breath

Dr Barbara Dossey website

Blue Monarch Health, PLLC

Restoration Room, PLLC

Tucson Nurses Week Foundation

Letters to a Future Nurse Book collaboration Nicole is the author of chapter 14: Nurse Friends
Let Go Nurse Coach blog

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Ep45: Behind the Scenes of Nurse Coaching- Ronald Kanka, BS "...sometimes I'm behind the scenes, and I forget the impact that what I'm doing is having until I attend graduations, and I hear all the Nurses say how this changed their lives." ~Ronald Kanka, B

Ah-Has

• Behind the scenes work and passion is imperative to the survival of any successful company
• INCA has almost 1500 Alumni in all 50 states, 17 countries and 6/7 continents, all sharing their passion for Nurse Coaching with their patients, colleagues and communities
• It feels incredible to contribute to and watch Nurse Coaching grow in your own unique way
• Say ‘yes’ to opportunities as they come up, for you never know how positively they can affect your life
• INCA has grown from an only in-person program to reaching Nurses all over the world through online programming
• INCA is growing in education opportunities from the Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program to multiple specialty programs (check out the links below)
• Reach out to an INCA admissions counsellor at admissions@inursecoach.com

Links and Resources

Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program

End of Life Program

Functional Medicine for Nurses Program

Business of Nurse Coaching Program

Cannabis Nurse Program

Mindfulness Based Stillness for Nurses Program

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Connecting to the Healing Energy of Your Breath- Barbara Dossey, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, HWNC-BC Highlights

“I put all of my attention here, breath into my heart, let go, breathe in slowly. And then I extend that deep love and peace that comes out to the people I'm working with, to the patients that I'm caring for.” ~Barbara Dossey, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, HWNC-BC

• Connecting to your breath is one way to relate to your interiority
• The quality of Interiority, or going inward, being introspective
• Find a practice that speaks to you… music, dance, breath work, aromatherapy, poetry, art, laughter… they all help you find your interiority
• Get out of your normal routine, try something different, or something that you love
• Creating different ways to get deeply in touch with yourself helps restore you for the challenging work you do
• Find your people, your comrades, your tribe, so you have those who always understand you
• There are so many avenues in Nursing to travel, you are never stuck

Episode 17: Find Your Nursing Soulmate with Barbie Dossey

Gallup poll 2022 results, Nurses as most trusted and ethically sound professionals

Dr Barbara Dossey website

1981: Critical Care: Body, Mind and Spirit

American Holistic Nurses Association

American Nurses Association

HeartMath

Holistic Nursing Textbook

Theory of Integral Nursing

Integrative Nurse Coach Academy

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“As a Nurse Coach, I'm able to do mindfulness exercises as we walk along our soul path, and as I help people to connect more completely with our therapy animals in a mindful and peaceful connection.” ~ Jodie L. Diegel, RN, BSN, MBA, LNC

Ah-Has

• Nursing is evolutionary- it grows and evolves alongside you… allow this
• A therapy animals focus could be… fitness, literacy, hospice, joy, hospital or hospice visits, and many more possibilities!
• You never know where your skills and love of Nursing will take you… allow your heart to open and guide you to what calls you, and how you use yourself to create
• Therapy animals mixed with Nursing combines a love of Nursing and a love for animals
• If animals are calling you, follow that call…
• Animal therapy can include any well-mannered animal- cats, miniature horses, dogs, donkeys, rabbits, pigs- can become registered to provide animal therapy for all abilities
• Reach out into your communities to bring health and wellbeing… write, podcast, videos, Facebook Lives,
• Partner within your community. Who needs support? Who needs assistance? who complements you and your offerings?
• Coaching with HEART: Healing, Energy, Awareness, Resilience, Transformation
• Allow your intuition, wisdom, vibration to guide you in your life
• How can you turn mindless moments into mindful moments (ie. Scooping poop!)

Links and Resources

SOUL Harbour Ranch Animal Therapy Program website and video

Pet Partners

SOUL Harbour Ranch Animal Therapy Program’s Friday Live at 5 on Facebook

Roadrunner Animal Spirt defined… “Roadrunner teaches how to find the hidden humor in situations all while showing you the path to greater productivity and efficiency.”

Coaching with HEART: Healing, Energy, Awareness, Resilience, Transform in the Nurse Coaching: Integrative Approaches for Lifestyle Health and Wellbeing textbook

IHWA: Integrative Health and Wellness Assessment: take it here!

A blog about the IHWA by Deborah McElligott
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Setting Boundaries as Humans and Nurses- Emily Jacobs, DNP, RN, APRN, CCNS, NC-BC Highlights

Ah-Has

• Setting boundaries is one way to align with your vision of what is best for you and is imperative to thrive in any environment
• Toxic work environments can be the impetus to make a change that better aligns with your spirit and your best interests
• Change can be difficult and It is ok to change positions and do something else that aligns with your values and heart
• Creating space allows new ideas, new possibilities
• Organizations are using Nurses as health coaches to offer health coaching to their employees
• Nurses make connections with people, and Nurses turn the patient’s hardest days into manageable and even good days
• Ask yourself… what happens if everything does work out? What would that look and feel like?
• Trust… everything will work out
• Each of us needs and will benefit from coaching
• Invest in yourself… amazing and beautiful things will happen for you!

Resources and Links

Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! Podcast episodes

Integrative Nurse Coach Academy Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program

Burning Soul Collective

Dr Emily Jacobs

Live Your Life for You Facebook Group
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“...when the body is out of balance, the endocannabinoid system tries to rebalance it. We have an actual retrograde signaling with the endocannabinoid system so that if there's some imbalance and the body wants to try to bring it back to homeostasis, you're going to see this signaling.” ~Heidi Irene Martell, MA, BSN, BA, RN, HWNC-BC, HNB-BC, CCBCP, CYT

Ah-has

• Nurses must learn about the endocannabinoid system. It is integral to practice.
• Nurse Coaching allows Nurses to combine the science and art of Nursing together with healing and desires in a holistic perspective
• A Nursing career lets us to adapt, change, and adjust to our personal and professional goals
• There can be a deep grief when a Nurse leaves the bedside to find another Nursing role

Resources and Links

CannyNurse® Specialty Program with the Integrative Nurse Coach Academy

Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program

American Cannabis Nurses Association

Colibris Canna Consulting

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Thriving in the Cycles of Nursing: Lisa Ostler, BSN, RN, NC-BC Highlights

“My passion is menstrual cycle health… it's helping release that stigma around menstruation and that we have to be quiet about it. It's powerful that women menstruate…and we need to honor it.” ~Lisa Ostler, BSN, RN, NC-BC

Ah-Has

• A Nursing career is adventurous, with a potential to travel the world
• It can be difficult to leave or change jobs even when you are burned out for many reasons
• You can combine the skills you love in Nursing with the passions you have in your life to create the Nursing career you love.
• Nurses are more than just physical beings, you are spirit, soul, mind, relationships, environment and more
• Ask for help, you deserve it!

Resources and Links

Integrative Nurse Coach Academy

Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program

Functional Medicine for Nurses Specialty Course

Olympia Integrative Healing

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The Global Impact of Nurse Coaching- Shakira Franklyn, CNM, MPH, MS, NC-BC Highlights

“When I think about the global aspect of Nurse Coaching and the global energy around it, I think about it in terms of everyone should have access to one: the benefit of a coach, the benefit of Nurse Coaching.” Shakira Franklyn, CNM, MPH, MS, NC-BC

Ah-Has

• Plants, Nursing and Nurse Coaching can be combined to find a Nurses true calling, joy and passion
• There is a global need for Nurses offering Nurse Coaching. Everyone needs access to the diverse offerings of Nurses as healers
• Personal and professional growth is enhanced through he Nurse Coaching process, self-exploration, self-reflection in your life and Nursing journey
• Nurses facilitate generational care, global caring and deep human caring
• Humans have the capacity to heal themselves

Resources and Links

The Evolution of the Quintuple Aim: Healthy Equity, Health Outcomes and the Economy article

National Plan for Health Workforce Wellbeing from the National Academy of Medicine

Become a Cannabis Nurse with the CannyNurse Certificate Program

Korpo Wellness

Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program

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Trusting Intuition as a Nurse Coach: Neelam Murthi, MS, RN Highlights

“How do you tap into your own intuition and listen to your inner guide about your next steps? We don't need to be stuck in a place because we think the benefits are great, and because the pay is great, or whatever the reason is. Choose what flourishes you.” ~Neelam Murthi, MSN, RN

Ah-Has

• Follow your intuition. Trust your gut.
• Manifest your desires. What do you truly want? Slow down, focus on what makes your heart feel joy and peace and go there. Follow your intuition. Find what enlivens you.
• DESA: Diet, exercise, sleep and awareness, one approach to Nurse health coaching
• You spend so much time at work, so it is imperative to bring self-care and wellbeing into your day, throughout the day, instead of just waiting until after work. It can take seconds to stop and take 3 deep breaths in and out.
• How can we meet our own needs to be fully present to care for others with deep meaning?
• Practice what you preach. Be a role model of what you want to see in the world
• Travel, network and find what speaks to your heart
• Try not to stay in a place because you need a paycheck, or because the benefits are good. Instead, find a place where you can flourish!

Links and Resources

Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program

Susan Luck
Barbara Dossey
Fempreneurs
Well Coaches

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Ah-has

• Starting a business is a rewarding journey of so many emotions and new learnings
• Nurses are perfectly positioned to start their own business
• Being a Nurse Coach entrepreneur creates independence
• No one teaches any business classes in Nursing school! So, you will have to learn new skills
• Ask for help
• There are plenty of resources to support you on this new adventure
• The Business of Nurse Coaching course will set you up for success

Resources and Links

Chronic Pain and Fatigue Pacing

Functional Medicine for Nurses Specialty Course

The Business of Nurse Coaching Specialty Course

Small Business Association

SCORE

Nurse Coaching Integrative Approaches to Health and Wellbeing Textbook

Speak to Chelsea or Lauren who are INCA Admissions Coordinators at admissions@inursecoach.com to get your Nurse Coaching questions answered!

Past ACTION! Business Podcast Episodes:

Ep27: The Business of Nurse Coaching with Katie Harris

Ep18: New Nurse Coach Entrepreneurship with Darlene Bell

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**Powerful Holistic Nurse Coaching- Danene Coroneos-Shannon, PhD, MSEd, BSN, BS, MCHES, NPD-BC, NC-BC, IC

"**And I get to do it in a holistic manner, which makes it even better. And I think that that creates a very unique bond. I think it creates a very unique relationship. And I'm one of those folks that I like to have that kind of relationship with people. I like to be around people, I like to feel their energy, I love to hear their stories. " ~Danene Coroneos-Shannon, PhD, MSEd, BSN, BS, MCHES, NPD-BC, NC-BC, IC

Ah-ha Moments

• Holistic Nursing may open possibilities for a Nurse to develop greater awareness of the interconnectedness of self, others, nature, spirit and relationship with the global community
• Spending time reconnecting with your purpose helps reinvigorate your passion for Nursing
• Reiki is a holistic energy practice
• Self-care is vital to every human
• Vulnerability might just open us up to learning something new
• Sometimes you must trust the process
• Coaching is walking beside, and sometimes walking a little behind someone to support them
• Provision 5 of the Nursing Code of Ethics states: The nurse owes the same duties to self as to others, including the responsibility to promote health and safety, preserve wholeness of character and integrity, maintain competence, and continue personal and professional growth

Links and Resources

Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program Information

Code of Ethics for Nurses from American Nurses Association

Ep32: Valuing Stories Of Suffering- Holly Kapusinksi, MSN, RN NC-BC CPNP-PC

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Ep35- Lifestyle Strategies for Impactful Coaching: Kristin Maack, BSN, RN, NBC-HWC Highlights

“One thing that's always excited me about health is learning how you can change your health, improve your health and transform your health with lifestyle, you know, with changing your diet, changing your sleep, working on emotional wellness.” ~ Kristin Maack, BSN, RN, NBC-HWC

Ah-Ha's

• There are so many opportunities to use lifestyle to improve chronic health conditions
• Nurses have innate coaching abilities
• Nurse Coaching does not have a set template… there are many different approaches to coach, and one size, never fits all
• Not every coaching session will be perfect…so finding nurse soulmates to help you unpack sessions is very important
• Connect with other coaches, no matter your specialty. They will support you and allow you space to debrief and learn together
• If you have lost your joy in your work, reach out to companies that resonate with you and your own values, so to find places to work that suit you best

Links and Resources

Nurse Coaching Integrative Approaches for Health & Wellbeing Textbook

The Art & Science of Nurse Coaching: A Provider's Guide to Scope & Competencies Textbook

Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program

Harmony Hill

Poplar

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Ep34: Powerfully Linking Curanderismo and Nurse Coaching- Caroline Ortiz, MS, MPH, RN, NC-BC Highlights

“I see much more of my own learning in this learning about Curanderismo and these practices. And not just the practices, obviously, but the outlook on life, the cosmology, the philosophy of how to live a right life, or in right relationship, because it certainly is much more than medical practices and rituals and remedies.” ~ Caroline Ortiz, MS, MPH, RN, NC-BC

Ah-Ha's

• When we can listen with our whole selves it creates a safe space for everyone
• It is powerful to listen and to be listened to
• Listening can happen in reading and writing, and in any situation
• Curanderismo is a Spanish name given to the healing practices from Mesoamerica
• There is a synergy between nurse coaching and curanderismo
• Nature as a Healer
• We are our own Healer

Resources & Links

Traditional Mesoamerican Medicine for Healing Trauma

Ortiz, C. E. (pending publication). Curanderismo: A Traditional Healing System in Today’s America.

Ortiz, C. E. (pending publication). Current Experiences with Traditional Mexican Medicine by U. S. Women of Mexican Origin: An Integrative Review.

Caroline Ortiz on LinkedIn

https://medium.com/nurses-you-should-know/caroline-ortiz-381f268d6e94

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Ep33: Nurse Coaches Take Care of Each Other- John Huaylinos, BSN, RN, HN-BC, HWNC-BC Highlights

“In today's world it is vital we take care of the person on your left, the person on your right, and the ones that matter the most. When you connect with what matters the most, life is... I've learned life is more rewarding.” ~John Huaylinos

Ah-Ha's

• COVID has amplified grief and bereavement loss which affects mental wellness on a personal and systemic degree
• Mental wellness requires advocacy. And includes everything in body, mind and soul
• Everyone has had scarring to their soul, and when we can recognize this, we can connect at a deeper level to humans
• Nurses can bury themselves in their work, this can lead to suppressing real desires and needs for self-care and self-compassion
• When Nurses explore their desires and need, this leads to self-preservation at a deep level

Resources and Links

GAD-7 (General Anxiety Disorder-7) Measures severity of anxiety.

PHQ-9 (Patient Health Questionnaire-9) Objectifies degree of depression severity.

Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program

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Ep32: Valuing Stories of Suffering- Holly Kapusinksi, MSN, RN NC-BC CPNP-PC Highlights

“Every single person has an idea of what suffering is to them. And their suffering may not be the same as mine. I came to understand that I can never label somebody else and their experience as being suffering, or joy, or happiness, or loneliness, or sadness. It's asking them what it is for them. And that has helped tremendously in being able to build therapeutic relationships with patients and clients.” ~Holly Kapusinski, MSN, RN NC-BC CPNP-PC

Aha's

• Stories are an important element of the human experience and need to be told!
• Nurses have so many important stories to tell and to share
• Suffering is a unique experience to each human
• Suffering in Nursing is felt not only as a patient, it is also felt deeply as a Nurse bearing witness
• The Nurse Coaching Integrative Approaches for Health and Wellbeing textbook written by Barbara Dossey, Susan Luck and Bonney Schaub speaks extensively to the human element of suffering and notes…

Nurse Coaches;

• acknowledge the suffering
• give voice to the suffering
• bear witness to the suffering
• create and implement a self-care plan
• develop a supportive work environment

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Dr. Margaret Newman

Integrative Nurse Coach Academy Nurse Coach Certificate Program

How to Release Stories of Suffering to Protect Your Own Energies: Tips from Integrative Nurse Coaching Students

Nurse Coaching Integrative Approaches for Health and Wellbeing textbook

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Ep31: Nurses: Champions for Social and Racial Justice Highlights

“Change first starts with each one of us as individuals, and we can't be better Nurses or Nurse Coaches, if we're not aware of our own biases, if we're not aware of defensiveness, or those feelings of guilt, or fear, or whatever that comes up when we really do this work. Then we can't really get to the place where we're going to be able to help our patients be healthier.”

~Nikki Akparewa, MSN, RN, MPH

“Jump in now, wherever, whatever calls to you, maybe there's a book group in your community. Join us at Nurse Champions for Justice. Just pick up a book and start reading. Get some podcasts and listen to other people's voices. Listen with that openness and curiosity. Just start. Now, start now.”

~Jayne Peterson, BSN, RN, NC-BC

“In talking about racism as a European descendant, white bodied person is the shame, the shame growing up in a racist country. All kinds of shames that we have. Shame prevents us from being authentic, because we have to hide, if we don't want people to know, our areas of shame, or our areas of vulnerability, we have to hide. This work helps us unpack that.”

~Jackie Levin, RN, MS, AHN-BC, HNWC-BC

At Nurse Coaches for Justice, we focus on the heart felt work of unlearning racism, uncovering the many forms of oppression that exists—seen and unseen, and working to disrupt systems of racism and oppression towards creating a healthy environment where all can be free and thrive, within a supportive and loving community.

Ah-Ha's

• The American Nurses Association defines racism as a public health crisis
• Racial justice work is heavy lifting and must be combined with self-care
• Racial justice work requires community, authentic conversation, deep listening and a willingness to be unbalanced
• To truly care for all humans, we must first look into our own selves to understand our own biases, hidden agendas, fears, guilt, defensiveness and social structures that perpetuate health inequity
• Begin now, in whatever way calls to you, to learn about diversity, inclusion and equity
• Address your Board of Nursing to demand racial justice learnings be incorporated into licensure
• Address your workplace to demand racial justice education for all employees

Resources and Links

94% of Nurses Say There's Racism in Healthcare: Survey Medscape

Nikki Akwarpea’s book: The Clinicians Guide to Microaggressions and Unconscious Bias

Valarie Kaur, Revolutionary Love Project https://valariekaur.com/revolutionary-love-project/

Resmaa Menakem

Ijeoma Umebinyuo. "Questions for Ada"

Decolonizing Poetry: an interview with Ijeoma Umebinyuo

The Ijeoma Project by Ijeoma Umebinyuo on Audible

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Ep30: Nurses: The Powerful Future of Functional Medicine Highlights

"When you use functional medicine, you find the "why" for someone, and it is always about their lifestyle, their exposures, their thought processes, everything that really aligned with Nurse Coaching for me, because I was able to help people guide through that process.

It was really fundamental Nursing practice. I realized that RNs are really the future of functional medicine, in my opinion. The skills we get in Nursing school just need to be lit up, and we can really help people heal." ~Brigitte Sager, MSN, RN, ARNP, FNP-C, NCMP, NC-BC

Ah-Ha's

• The functional medicine model is a personalized, patient-centered, science-based approach empowering patients and practitioners to become partners to promote optimal wellness and address underlying causes of disease. Coupling this approach the unique skillset and knowledge of a Nurse’s art and science foundation just makes sense!
• Functional medicine seeks to find the ‘why’ for someone through a collaborative approach
• Functional medicine supports lifestyle strategies and helping patient, clients and communities implement them into their busy lives
• Let’s stop underestimating the solid foundation that Nurses already have. Our education sets us up for success like no other profession. This is why Nurses can do anything and be successful!
• Nurse, you are ready! Never undervalue yourself. Set healthy boundaries. Make connections.
• Healing is the future of healthcare, and that is who we are as Nurses

Links and Resources

Functional Medicine for Nurses Course

Integrative Nurse Coach Academy Integrative Nurse Coach Certification Program

Institute for Functional Medicine

Harmony Hill, Union, WA

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"We have to consciously remind ourselves, man, I need to take care of myself, right? What does that mean, to take care of yourself? It's another deeper question. It's not just the physical part of the self. It's also addressing your emotional needs, your mental health needs, your spiritual needs, and even your environment." ~Rosie Dominia

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"I think self-care is at the core of supporting your wellbeing. If you're in tune with what you need, then that's the first step. Asking yourself the question: what do I need right now? I'm feeling stressed, I need to take a break, I need to take a deep breath." ~Emily Bennett

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"And being able to know there's self-intervention practices and activities that I can do to, I mean, truly create a self-intervention, you know? Like, save myself! Because ultimately, it's up to me. If I can't treat myself the way I want to be treated, how in the world do I expect anyone else to treat me well?" ~Kim Richards

Ah Ha Moments

• Every person has their own definition of what self-care means to them, there is no absolute
• Self-care need not be elaborate. Even a few slow, deep breaths are a form of deliberate self-care
• Business and chronic stress are not normal states and contribute to states of illness and dis-ease, recognizing this and using a self-intervention gets us out of high stress and more in to ease
• How you perceive your own wellness can guide you closer, or further to self-compassion and self-care
• Developing your own sense of awareness around self-care, stress and how you perceive your own worth are drivers for wellbeing
• Self-care evolves as you evolve. What may work once, may or may not work the next time, so continuous self-awareness and exploration are key to caring for self
• A few exploration ideas for self-care (please note it is best to explore what works for you) that were mentioned in the podcast
  • Music
  • Movement
  • Nature
  • Cooking
  • Deep breathing
  • Self-awareness
  • Being with others
  • Laughter and finding joy
  • Alone time
  • Asking for help
  • Pausing
  • Doing what you need in the moment

Resources

Integrative Nurse Coach Academy Nurse Coach Certificate Program

Buddha's Brain by Rick Hansen

Barbara Dossey

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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

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Ep27: The Business of Nurse Coaching- Catie Harris, PhD, MBA, RN Highlights

“There's a million reasons not to start a business, but you only need one reason, and that is because you want to do it, because you want to make an impact, and because your belief that if you invest in your solution — in yourself — that it will work.” ~Catie Harris

• Although Nurses do not generally learn about business concepts in Nursing school, you can easily learn and then apply them into a business you are passionate about
• Nurses have incredible critical thinking skills which are needed to succeed in business ventures
• Not all Nurse Coaches want to go into business, but for those that do, The Business of Nurse Coaching course prepares you with a plan to do so
• It’s imperative to pinpoint the niche you want to work with. Being too much of a generalist makes it confusing for you, and for potential clients
• To be successful in business and build a foundation, you must know the audience you are serving, what problem you are solving for them and who your competition is
• Personal discovery and personal development are key to business and human growth
• There’s lots to learn about business, but you can do it!

The Integrative Nurse Coach Academy

The Business of Nurse Coaching Specialty Program

The Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program

NursePreneurs

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Ep26: Healing Energy of Nurse Coaching- Sara Choi, BSN, RN, CEN, HNB-BC, IHWC-BC Highlights "...health is multifaceted, and it's a journey, and it incorporates so many different medical systems and modalities of healing and approaches." ~Sara Choi

Ah-ha Moments

• Nurse Coaching can be combined with any and many healing modalities like Healing Touch, Reiki, Sound Healing, yoga, meditation, guided imagery, aromatherapy, nourishment, movement and more!
• Nurse Coaching can be used at the bedside with patients, with colleagues, in communities, doctors’ offices, insurance companies, in private practice, in colleges and any other area you can dream of!
• A Nurse may see the tools and journey of Nurse Coaching as a way to begin healing
• Self-care must be a priority to stay energetic and joyful in Nursing practice
• Listen to your heart for what is truly calling you in your life
• What signs have you been ignoring that are keeping you from your true passion as a Nurse and human being?

Links and Resources

Team Lavender: How one hospital supports employee well-being article

10 Steps to Start Your Own Business

Sarang Healing

Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program

The Business of Nurse Coaching Specialty Program

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Ep25: It's Time to Re-Energize Nurses!- Karen Avino, EdD, RN, AHN-BC, HWNC-BC Highlights "The way we can re-energize Nurses is by giving them their voice; they need their voice back. And Nurse Coaching does that for us, it gives us language to use, and it gives us an area that we can then center on in health promotion and focus, and that's what we do, and we do it best." ~Karen Avino

Ah-Ha Moments

• Nurse Coaching curriculum coupled with self-awareness, self-reflection, self-care can re-energize Nurses’ practice
• Transformation is not linear, or a step-by-step process, and can occur with self-development, which includes self-assessment, self-reflection, self-care
• Board certified Nurse Coaches are now included in use of CPT 3 codes, health and wellbeing codes are:
  • 0591T Health and Well-Being Coaching face-to-face; individual, initial assessment
  • 0592T individual, follow-up session, at least 30 minutes
  • 0593T group (two or more individuals), at least 30 minutes
• Resilience is a process, a journey and cannot be created overnight.
• Learning is a continuous process; INCA has created multiple advanced and specialty Nursing programs to enhance Nursing practice and aid in self-care and building resilience in Nurses
• Connecting with like-minded people enhances wellbeing and shared goals
• Instead of turning away from the broken healthcare system, Nurses can make a difference where they are. Stand firm, speak up and break down barriers to shift the way healthcare is being practiced

Links

CPT Codes for Board Certified Nurse Coaches Press Release

Integrative Nurse Coach™ Certificate Program

INCA Specialty Programs Below

CannyNurse™ Certificate Program

Functional Medicine for Nurses

Re-Imagining the End of Life Program

The Business of Nurse Coaching

Stillness Practice: A Mindfulness Approach to Nursing in the Present

Integrative Health and Wellness Assessment™

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Ep24: Stop Burnout in Nursing School- Janice Lanham, MS, RN, CNEcl Highlights

"Burnout doesn't just happen when Nurses graduate and start working as a Nurse. In my opinion, I think that in Nursing school, we set them up to burn out because of the intensity and the rigor of these Nursing programs." ~Janice Lanham

Ah-ha Moments

• Nurse burnout is a phenomenon, Nurses are leaving the profession within 3 years of graduation
• While it is imperative that Nursing schools uphold standards of care and enforce critical Nursing knowledge, could the rigor, strictness and strong focus on performance and grades be forming the foundation of burnout?
• Could a happy medium between scholarly and practice performance and wellbeing reduce burnout? How could that look in Nursing schools? How could Nursing professors reshape the present system to incorporate more wellbeing practices into curricula? Could Nurse Coaching be an answer?
• Nursing schools could focus more on student’s wellness by incorporating more wellbeing practices into curriculum, like journaling, mindfulness and meditation, movement, music, and self-care and other complementary practices
• The use of present research on Nurse Burnout in combination with research supporting complementary modalities can be used to establish credible ways to support Nursing student and Nursing professors’ wellbeing
• A 2021 JAMA of Psychiatry study shows that Female Nurses have double the risk of suicide than women in the general public
• No Nurse can function from an empty cup. Focus on caring for self, and establishing routines of self-care are imperative to prevent burnout, potential risk of suicide and enhance joy, happiness, gratitude, calm, purpose and satisfaction

Resources

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 800-273-8255 (call or chat) their website is https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

American Nurses Association Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation

Rate of Suicide Among Women Nurses Compared With Women in the General Population Before the COVID-19 Global Pandemic

Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program

Integrative Health and Wellness Assessment Long Form

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

Candy Striper

The Wheel of Life

National Academy for Medicine's Clinician Well-being
Nicole Vienneau email nicole@bluemonarchhealth.com

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Ep23: Lifestyle Medicine and Cannabis Nursing: Ariana Ayu, RN, MSc Highlights

"...the kind of interventions that we use within lifestyle medicine vary based on the individual because everything I do comes from this coaching paradigm where the client is the number one authority on their own body." ~Ariana Ayu

Ah-ha Moments

• Learning about lifestyle medicine coupled with cannabis Nursing enhances a Nurse's understanding making this approach to patient care more tangible and relatable
• There is rich and credible research supporting the use of cannabis and the endocannabinoid system for many, many populations
• Lifestyle medicine combined with Nurse Coaching and Cannabis Nursing focuses on the goals of the patient, the client and the community
• The endocannabinoid system is the master regulatory system of all of the other systems in the body, so understanding it, enhances the knowledge of the healthcare professional
• Using Cannabis as an adjunct in Nursing care is about helping clients and patients listen to their bodies, honor their innate wisdom, and pay attention, rather than just taking something that will make it go numb
• The CannyNurse™ Certification Program is open to all Nurses, LPNS, LVNs who are interested in taking an in-depth program to understand Cannabis Nursing and the endocannabinoid system

Resources and Links

Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program

CannyNurse™ Certificate Program

CannyNurse™ Scholarship Program

Nurse Coaching: Integrative Approaches for Health and Wellbeing textbook

CannyNurse™ Blog

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"...let's just have a moment where you're looking inward and you're quiet and relaxed, and give them the gift of some positive suggestions. That is as simple as hypnosis is. And then having that science to support it and having the know-how to weave that into Nurse Coaching. It's so intuitive and automatic when you overlay the science of hypnosis— which is ages, ages old— and weave that into our Nursing healing model." ~Christy Cowgill

Ah-ha Moments

• Words are very powerful and how we choose to use them can help patients, clients and communities shift their perspectives
• Instead of asking, “what is your pain level?” try asking, “how comfortable are you?” And see what happens
• Instead of asking, “are you nauseated?” try asking, “are you hungry?” And see what happens
• Nurses are pairing the skills of Nurse coaching with techniques, tools, and practices they are passionate about to connect with their deeper purpose as a Nurse and human
• Hypnosis brings in peace, calm through enhancing the parasympathetic system
• The science and evidence of hypnosis is strong (see minute 33:33 to read more)

Resources and Links

Enter into Calm

Integrative Nurse Coach Academy Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program

The Evolution of Hypnosis in the Profession of Nursing: We've Come a Long Way, Baby, and Still Have a Long Way to Go

Hypnosis appears to reduce perceived hot flashes in breast cancer survivors and may have additional benefits such as reduced anxiety, depression, and improve sleep

73% of clients who were taught self-hypnosis reported disappearance of their tinnitus

National Guild of Hypnotherapists

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"It's so important for every individual to take a few moments each day and go inward, to connect with your heart, to get to know yourself again, no matter what age you are. And to open your heart so that you can look at others not with judgment, not with criticism, not with some preconceived idea, but just as another soul who's on this path, learning and growing with you." ~Claire D'Andrea

Ah-ha Moments

• Nurses continue to be blessed with the ability to ebb and flow with life changes by pairing it with new Nursing roles, jobs and opportunities
• When you know you want and need to do something, your heart will beat faster, your soul will sing and your gut will speak... listen to the internal-knowing messages you receive
• Nurse Coaching training can change your life, and the way you interact with others, and yourself
• Try not to ignore caring for yourself as a top priority
• Women's heart health comprises not only caring for the heart muscle, but also your mind-body-spirit connection too!
• Find a healthcare practitioner you respect and can relate to, for a symbiotic partnership leads to clearer plans of care for yourself and your family
• There are many women's heart health resources available to you (see the resources below to get started)
• Love yourself and love your heart

Links and Resources

WomenHeart: the leading voice for the millions of American women living with or at risk of heart disease

American Heart Association

Pacific Pearl La Jolla

Integrative Nurse Coach Academy Nurse Coach Programs

Integrative Nurse Coach Academy I Integr
Our mission is to provide nurses with a global community for learning, networking, and reconnecting

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Ep20: Living While Dying- Jan Booth, MA, RN, NC-BC Highlights

“There is so much taboo and phobia, and reluctance to talk about death and dying and even though I may be a conversation opener in end-of-life, I still grew up and was formed within a culture that did not want to talk about death and dying.” ~Jan Booth

• Nurse Coaches begin where a person is in their own health, and they are open to discussing brokenness, hope, wellbeing, resilience
• All of us will die, yet there is an illusion that we all have time, so health is not urgent. Someone who lives with a serious illness, or is at their end of life has a different sense of urgency
• Nurse Coaches make a difference by talking about difficult situations and use their voices to make change in the present broken health care system
• Nurse Coaching is understanding how people change, seeing a readiness to change versus not readiness to change, and what contributes to their readiness to change
• People must believe they can change and have a vision for something different than what is. This does not come easy to most, so a partnership with a Nurse Coach is essential
• At the heart of coaching is a capacity to be fully present, to not be afraid of what someone is wrestling with, to not need to fix it, to not shut ourselves off because we're afraid, but to be able to be fully present. These are the keys to working with someone who's living with serious illness.
• Death is a natural process. Nurse Coaches can teach the human skills of how to incorporate death and impermanence into how we live. If we don’t learn the human skills of how to care for each other, we'll continue to feel lost

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“Our creativity sits in our womb. It's also like our second brain. When we develop a connection to ourselves and can trust our intuition, our womb intuition, as well, we become powerful beings, and a force to be reckoned with.” ~Jessica Gonyo

• Nurse Coaches can use their coaching skills and couple them with whatever they are passionate about to create their own Nurse Coaching business or practice. In this case, Jessica has combined Nurse Coaching with functional medicine, science, spirituality and women’s health and healing
• The Integrative Nurse Coach Academy’s Nurse Coach Certificate Program teaches Nurses to prioritize their own health and needs
• The work of a Nurse Coach in their communities can prevent disease and help to reduce the number of people walking through the Emergency doors
• Keep looking for answers if you feel that your provider is not finding the source of symptoms that are making you feel less than healthy
• Food and what we eat has the potential to fill you with health, or have an impact in taking away the health you deserve
• Nurse Coaching colleagues are connected to each other and create a sense of connection and ‘knowing’ among each other
• Nurse Coaching and what you learn during the course can be lifechanging professionally and personally
• Women’s Circles offer a safe space for women to connect about issues that are important to them

Links mentioned in this podcast

American Holistic Nurses Association

Deer Mountain Wellness

Harmony Hill

Integrative Nurse Coach Academy

Wise Womban Wellness Facebook Group

Wise Wombman Activation Course

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Ep18: New Nurse Coach Entrepreneurship- Darlene Bell, BSN, RN, NC Highlights

“There's an entire world out there, whether you Google, or whether you go on social media, use those hashtags, find keywords, #Nurse Entrepreneurship, or anything in relation to what it is that you want to do. It's out there. … use technology as best as you can in a way that will empower you.” ~ Darlene Bell

• Nursing school doesn’t teach you business classes, but there is a whole world filled with resources to help you, if you look for them.
• Step outside the normal Nursing roles to discover the many opportunities for Nurses.
• Nurse Entrepreneurship is filled with successful Nurse Entrepreneurs who want to see you succeed.
• Ask for help. Seek out role models you would like to connect with, then send them an email and pick their brain.
• It is possible to work full time as an RN and begin to work on your business. BUT- set boundaries!
• Nurse Coaching offers a safe space for people to share their desires, to uncover their passions, purpose, and values.
• Integrative Nurse Coaching courses help you become more self-aware and help you transform your present life into a life filled with meaning.
• Nurse Coaches can help you discover who you are, what your goals are, and how to get there.

Belle Vie Integrative Wellness

Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION!

Integrative Nurse Coach Academy

National Nurses and Business Association

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Ep 17: Find Your Nursing Soulmate- Barbara Dossey, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, HWNC-BC Highlights

“One of the great joys in this profession of Nursing is having found like-minded soulmates. As I continue, one of the joys is tapping in with like-minded brothers and sisters, finding those special few that…I can put an idea out there and they won't think I'm crazy.”

• Find a soulmate, who will listen to you, who appreciates what you share, and who will take the time to ask you questions. This is who will keep you steady.
• Explore who you are and what your purpose is. Get clear on your core values.
• It is a privilege to listen to the story of a patient.
• Consider writing down all your ideas, then once a month, lay them all out in a mind map. You will see the threads that connect your small threads and ideas into one larger idea.
• Emotional resilience is learning how to downregulate and be in touch with emotions.
• Evelyn Underhill’s 5 phases of mysticism and why Florence Nightingale is a 19th century mystic.
• We don’t have to have all the pieces; we just need to begin.
• Why having a soft front and a strong back coupled with grounded self-practices helps us stay in the essence of compassion and empathy and not fall into sympathy and pity.
• Nurse Coaches don’t have to fix anything.
• How one step can contribute to the long vision of Nurse Coaching and bigger ideas like the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
• One goal Barbie is working towards now and why she put her red handled 5 pound weights on her desk.

Links from Podcast Interview

17 Sustainable Development Goals United Nations

American Association of Critical Care Nurses

Dossey and Dossey Website

Evelyn Underhill Mysticism

Florence Nightingale’s voice recorded in July 1890 by Thomas Alva Edison's assistant in London

Healthy People Healthy Nation

Healthy Nurse Healthy Nation

Integrative Health and Wellness Assessment Tool

Integrative Nurse Coach Association

Integrative Nurse Coach Academy

Nightingale Initiative for Global Health

Theory of Integral Nursing

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Ep16: Pain Management and Nurse Coaching- Megan Filoramo MSN, RN,FNP-BC, RN, HWNC-BC, AP-PMN Highlights

“Maybe I want to do pain management because I really see the limiting beliefs in pain patients, and I think probably anybody who's worked with people in chronic pain know exactly what I'm talking about.

But when I thought about it a little bit more, I really saw a parallel between pain patients and Nurses, and the parallel was the suffering from the circumstance. If I'm picking somebody to serve, if I'm picking somebody that I feel will have the greatest impact in the world, that's Nurses.” Megan Filoramo

• Ask for what you want and be open to it, and the pieces will fall into place with ease
• Nurse Coaching is being used to manage pain in 1:1 or group coaching
• Nurse Coaching opens up opportunities to do things differently, and uncover a different result
• Serving fellow Nurses can have the biggest impact on the healthcare system. When we care for the care-givers healing occurs in full spectrum, from patient to Nurses
• When you give the highest level of care with the tools and situation you have, it is always good enough
• Growing as a Nurse Entrepreneur is tough, and you will make mistakes, but it’s all worth the effort! Fill up with self-compassion and self-love, look for resources and ask for help to support your work

Simple Tips to Prevent Nursing Burnout from Megan

• Believe that when you give the highest level of care with the tools and situation you have, that is always good enough
• remember why you’re there, to really focus on what you can do for the patient right now. Or what you can you do for your co-worker. Show up in the way that you want to show up, regardless.
• Approach all situations with love and compassion

Nursing Beyond the Job Guide

Small Business Development Center

Integrative Nurse Coach Academy

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Ep15: Sound Healing and Nurse Coaching- Michele McNiff, MSN, RN, HWNC-BC, NC-BC, CHTP, e500 RYT Highlights"Giving yourself that space and time. And it's just like anything, anywhere, we can do that in nature, listening to the ocean, listening to the birds, listening to the wind and the trees."  Michele McNiff

• Sound healing opens up opportunities for space, time and silence in everyday life.  From sitting quietly, to turning off the news with a cup of tea, to just noticing the wind or the birds, to immersing one’s-self in sound healing baths.  Exploring opportunities will make a difference.
• Humming is self-care.
• Nurse Coaching is being used to support teachers to help them reduce stress and better function in their own lives, therefore being more readily open and available to support the students they are teaching.
• Listen as Michele invites us to be immersed in her singing bowls.
• Transitioning from ICU Nursing to holistic practices for Michele was all about slowing down and becoming more present and authentic to her desires.

RN FM Radio

Wah! Music

Michele McNiff website

VEBA Resource Center

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Ep14: Connecting Nurse Coaches- Gretchen Schodde MN, ARNP, FNP-BC, NC-BC Highlights

"I think [Nurse Coaching] is where people hear each other in a new way. I'm sure at the end of a shift, if people would have 10 minutes that they could have kind of a Healing Circle debrief, led by a Nurse Coach, they would go home more prepared to rest and renew. Because it's work that's hard to not take home with you." Gretchen Schodde

• Nurse Coaching is connecting Nurses across the country and world
• Nurse Coaching creates a safe space where people hear each other in a new way
• Nurse Coaching provides a broader variation of what Nurses can do
• There is a sister and brotherhood in Nurse Coaching
• Nurse Coaching can be done in person or virtually
• Nurse Coaching is innovating ways of communicating

Resources and links mentioned in podcast

Harmony Hill Retreat Center

Healing Circles Global

Nurse Coaching: Integrative Approaches for Health and Wellbeing

The Art and Science of Nurse Coaching

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Ep13: Group Coaching for Couples and Women- Annabeth Elliott, MSN, RN, NC-BC Highlights“One of the group coaching norms we have for the group was not to give advice. So, we are more supportive and ask questions and have ideas of what someone might look at that might be helpful to them. If there is ever a time where we stray away from those norms, I just try to remind everybody what the group agreed upon in the beginning, and then we move forward as a group.” Annabeth Elliott

• Listen to one of our newer Graduates of Integrative Nurse Coaching Annabeth Elliott, what she has learned so far, what she envisions for her future, and how she turned the tables on me to ask me questions towards the end of the podcast
• Group Coaching offers wisdom from everyone in attendance.  It is powerful when groups do not give advice, instead, they are supportive, ask questions and hold space for the person speaking
• Coaching for couples around lifestyle specifically food can be lifechanging, since so much time is spent preparing foods.  Having real conversations with couples can open up more possibilities for mutual understanding related to food choices, needs and desires
• Nurse Coaches need to be present and be in the moment, this is the only way one can truly hear and understand
• Nurse Coaches do not give advice, instead they strive to help you pull out your own wisdom to find solutions

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Ep12: Nurse Coaches, Innovative Healthcare Leaders- Nicole Piotrowski BSN, RN, HWNC-BC Highlights

“I work with innovative healthcare teams, mainly in the startup world now, that are on a mission to create a new kind of healthcare delivery system focused on relationship-based care -- taking care of the whole person instead of the bottom line, that value-based care.” ~Nicole Piotrowski, BSN, RN, HWNC-BC

• Nurse Coaching is an innovative healthcare process that places the patient, client, family or community as the center of the conversation, plan or care
• Startups like Vori Health are using Nurse Coaches and see them as innovative healthcare role models
• Nurse Coaching can be as close as a telephone call, or an app on your phone
• It is collaborative to work in a system where every practitioner knows the client and each healthcare professional (regardless of specialty) has the autonomy to refer clients to modalities that will help them
• Patients are not ‘non-compliant’. Instead, there is a barrier that they cannot cross, and because of that, it is difficult for them to follow a plan, that ultimately was never truly created for them
• Nurse Coaching gives the client the ownership and power of their own health decisions
• Integrative Nurse Coaches help people make small meaningful change, establish goals, and make little lifestyle behavior changes, to make a huge difference in someone's overall health
• What would happen if Nurse Coaches were in all settings throughout America? People would be A LOT healthier!

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Ep.11: Environment Impact because of Nurse Coaching - Susan Luck, BS, RN, MA, HN-BC, CCN, HWNC-BC Highlights

“When we talk about the environment, we're not only talking about our external environment and the chemicals externally or the air pollution, but we're looking at our internal environment and the interconnectedness. A lot of times, our internal environment is also growing organisms that may be deleterious and may also impact our immune function, our brain function, our cardiovascular function, and certainly, based on one's predisposition in genetics, everything in between.” Susan Luck, BS, RN, MA, HN-BC, CCN, HWNC-BC

• Bringing awareness to the importance of environmental assessments, environmental conversations and awareness, and how the environment impacts health and wellbeing has been a lifelong passion of Susan Luck.
• A few great environmental focused Nurse Coaching questions: how does your environment support your health and wellbeing? Are there areas in your home or in your workplace or in your community that might be impacting the community health and wellbeing or your family's health and wellbeing?
• A Nurse Coaches voice is integral in shifting beyond the present medical model and into a more holistic integrative way of thinking about what is health, and what is wellbeing.
• How life experiences, curiosity, education, and nursing knowledge all contribute to the wisdom of a Nurse Coach. Nurse Coaches are continuously curious.
• When Nurses were not invited to the table at Harvard when coaching was being discussed, the Co-Founders of the International Nurse Coach Association brought themselves to the table demanding to have a part in the coaching discussion. They were not welcomed with open arms and had to prove Nurses belonged there, and even write a white paper about Nurses and health coaching.
• If you are passionate about something, learn about it, speak about it, be curious and ask questions about it. Then, bring it forward every chance you can.

Email Susan at sluck@inursecoach.com

Nurse Coaching: Integrative Approaches for Health and Wellbeing Textbook

The Art and Science of Nurse Coaching: The Provider’s Guide to Coaching Scope and Competencies, 2nd Edition

Environmental Working Group

The American Holistic Nurse Beginning’s magazine

Earthrose Institute

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Ep10: Awareness is the Key to Nurse Coaching - Joni O'Neil, BSN, RN, NC-BC Highlights

“Becoming aware of our thoughts, our feelings and our actions in the moment, and having the ability to become aware when we're not. So many of us live our lives on autopilot.” Joni O’Neil

• Nurse Coaching brings people an awareness, becoming aware of your thoughts, your feelings and your actions in the moment, and having the ability to become aware when you’re not.
• Awareness can help you recognize you have an autopilot brain, and that you have, (what Joni calls) a ‘thought genie’. Your frontal brain, and your ability to make conscious decisions.
• When you can tap into the thought genie and recognize that your autopilot computer brain is running on habit and can just breathe and decide that you want to reprogram that computer, that auto-brain, you can.
• Awareness is knowing that you have the choice. If you want to stay in the autopilot, fine, choose it, own it, be there. But if you don't, knowing that you have the power to decide what you want to think about. And it's not that you just say, “Okay, I'm going to think this” and then you think it.
• Nurse Coaching helps you become aware of your power. To frame your brains, focus your brains on what's important to you and what serves you and what's valuable to you.
• Begin with what you are passionate about, and work from your strengths and where you can use that in your coaching.
• Nurse coaching is its own skill and its own science. In Nursing education, you can often learn how to educate, and coaching and education are two distinctly different skill sets.
• A Nurse Coach does not need to be the expert of everything, instead it is all about the person, their feelings and what they are going through, and where they want to go. It is not about the disease or illness process.

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Ep 9: Flower Essence with Nurse Coaching- Anna Yang, RN, HNB-BC, HW-NC Highlights "A sunflower is a wonderful flower essence to take for if you feel like you don't have a strong enough backbone. If you have to speak out into the world, and you don't want to, it's a good one for someone who's shy because it helps you be comfortable being seen. It's a good one to use if you're wondering what's your path in life or are you confused or you're not sure what to do, because the leaves follow the sun, so they follow the path of light." ~Anna Yang

• A sunflower with its tall stem and big, open face, is a flower essence to explore if you feel like you don't have a strong enough backbone. If you have to speak out into the world, and you don't want to. It's good for someone who's shy because it helps you be comfortable being seen
• Using affirmations can help by stating something positive in the present time that you want to have happen, and then saying them with intentions
• Sometimes, because of our own health journeys we discover things that speak to our own healing that we can use to help others heal as we heal
• A Nurse can combine Nurse Coaching with anything they are passionate about. In Anna’s case, she combines Nurse Coaching with flower essence, labyrinth facilitation, and women’s studies to offer possibilities to shift health and wellbeing in her community
• Holistic Nursing has a body, mind, spirit approach to everything
• The profession of Nursing is a foundation for many other educational, professional and personal learnings and experiences
• Nurses can use their skills and professional experiences to offer programming, ideas, education and tools for their communities. Whatever Nurses develop will support their communities and interests successfully

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Ep8: Creating Community to Fill the Gap- Jodi Tansky, BSN, RN, HWNC-BC Highlights

“It's creating community, right? Part of the big piece of the Blue Zones is having that community. And I'm very saddened about how we maybe lost some community in this past year. However, I think some resilience in people has pushed them to different communities or different ways of connecting that they normally wouldn't have done.”  Jodi Tansky

• How creating community and noticing a gap in community services lead to opening Elevate Wellness Center in Fairbanks, AK.
• The stress of an adrenaline-seeking lifestyle can do a disservice to one’s health.  Seeking other ways of healing self can lead to more success, calm and more in life as a Nurse and a human.
• Nurse Coaching teaches the tools to slow down and find moments for self-care.
• Nurse Coaches are combining their passions with the skills of Nurse Coaching.  In this podcast, Jodi combines her passion of integrative health, functional medicine, and nutrition into her practice.
• Nurses are practitioners in their own right and can be confident in that!
• When you believe in yourself, anything is possible, and all things fall into place.
• Nurse Coaches are passionate about raising people up around them.

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Move More Freely Through Life - Judy Fasone MSN-ED, RN, CTP, HWNC-BC, AHN-BC Highlights

“My focus is self-care through movement, to move more freely, and I call it a moving meditation. Because if we slow our movements down and really become more aware of how things are working, it changes our whole way of being in the world.” ~Judy Fasone

• When you move more freely, it allows you to follow your heart, and this offers many more opportunities to feel joy and happiness.
• Combining Nurse Coaching with other modalities one is passionate about allows Nurse Coaching to become more personalized to the Nurse and to clients, patients, and communities.
• Nurse Coaches are entrepreneurs, and can also work in more traditional Nursing roles.
• Nurse Coaching reduces the use, impact, and burden to the healthcare system, because the skills of a Nurse Coach help people understand they can learn to rely on their own wisdom.  It also helps them act earlier, instead of waiting for illness to happen.
• Shifting Nursing practice to telehealth and becoming more comfortable in the virtual space opens more opportunities for Nurse Coaches to reach into their communities.

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Ep6: Immacula Jean-Charles, MSN, APN, FNP-BC, RN Highlights

“As Nurses, we're just such jack of all trades. Hey! Hello, I'm a Nurse {Coach}, I have all this knowledge, I can help you achieve whatever goal it is that you need to achieve. I am here to support you in achieving those goals and I can help you in any capacity.” Immacula Jean-Charles

• Nurse Coaches are the Jack of All Trades. Nurses have incredible skills, knowledge, passion, intuition, innovation, and integrity and can excel in any area they choose to be in.
• Burnout and fatigue in nursing are rampant and may Nurses consider leaving the profession because of it. It’s not because they are not passionate about the work. Instead, they become burned out with the hours, the stress, the emotional drain.
• Nurse Coaching helps a Nurse slow down, to breathe and focus on the present. It helps one discover what really matters and to discover what one is passionate about in Nursing, so they stay in the Nursing profession.
• Nurse Coaches use all these skills to support patients, clients, communities, and fellow healthcare practitioners achieve whatever goal they want.
• Nurse Coaches can work anywhere! Nurse Coaches can work in hospital settings at the bedside, during care and preparing for discharge. In care co-ordination so the patient’s voice is heard. Doctors’ offices, corporate environments, community settings, schools, universities, everywhere, even in the government.
• Nurse Coaches are the in-between. We have the knowledge, and we have the caring personality to come in and help them to connect, and help them to understand, and help them to express, and help them to create their own plans, and how they're going to take the doctor’s suggestions.

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Leslie Heron, RN, MN, ARNP, FNP-BC, NC-BC Highlights

New Ears to Hear

“I think it (Nurse Coaching) gave me new ears to hear what my client’s goal was— and, you know, maybe bend them to my will a little bit (laughter)— and have them voice that goal and what they really want to work on. It made my work in cancer survivorship much more meaningful and accessible to my patients after getting my Nurse Coach certification.” Leslie Heron

• Nurse Coaching impacts a healthcare practitioner’s view over their work positively and saves productivity and healthcare costs, because patients are not returning to the ED or clinics as often, since they are choosing to focus on goals and ideas that are central to their needs, not the practitioners. Practitioners have greater satisfaction and connection with their patients because of this partnership.
• There is a big difference between the ‘prescriptive’ way of healthcare and the 'open ear' way of Nurse Coaching. Leslie speaks to the difference in depth.
• Nurse Coaching provides Nurses more ease in their work. Instead of always ‘driving the bus, looking for directions, and leading the way’, a Nurse Coach may say, “Well, what direction do you want to drive the bus? And I'll help you, I’ll say ‘turn left here’, but I don't have to be the one reading the map all the time.”
• A Nurse can use the skills and tools of Nurse Coaching anywhere they practice.
• What happens when one can “Move at the speed of guidance.” (Michael Lerner)
• Sometimes you must move a step above the chain of command when you hear the word ‘no’, from your supervisor to get answers you want and need.

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Episode 4: Michelle Mortimer, BSN, RN, HN-BC Highlights

Self-care means making sure that I have enough, that I am full enough on my own, that I'm eating healthy foods, that I'm managing my stress, that I'm noticing when I'm really stressed out, and like, taking a step back, and that I'm taking care of my physical being and also relationships; it's all part of it, you know, we look at the whole being. ~Michelle Mortimer

• Creating Nurse Coaching magic. Nurse Coaching is magical. There's magic in that pause, in that space-the magic allows that person you're with to connect with their true self and be it and that's when the magic happens.
• Nurses bring their scientific background, all of their training, assessment skills, critical thinking and more to the table. This is why Nurses are highly effective health coaches.
• Nurse Coaches are innovative entrepreneurs and running their own businesses in our communities.
• When one listens with deep awareness, it helps bring out things people don't realize they were saying or thinking. This listening helps people identify their own goals, which makes them much more successful.
• Hearing without judgment. The more expression people are able to do, along with acknowledgement and validation, and then creating smart goals, starting small, and having small successes and then building upon them. It really works! That whole process works.
• Nurse Coaches help people process big changes (like diabetes). Instead of just going home with a paper printout that tells you all these things, you're going to work with a Nurse Health Coach and they're going to help you process that and really work through it. I see that as being a huge opportunity.

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Episode 3: Lindsay Johnson, MSN, RN, NC-BC Highlights

“I see Nurse Coaching as an expanded view of health care in a more integrative sense; we are impacted by a complex dynamic of things rather than just little things.”
- Lindsay Johnson

• Embracing self-care as soul-care can shift the way you care for yourself, without caring about yourself, and this is very important in times when one feels self-critical, or in self-doubt. Caring for yourself without caring about yourself oftentimes allows self-love.
• A Registered Nurse’s career is a continuous evolution through employment, connections, business, personal achievements and life.
• One of the perks of being a Registered Nurse, is that they can be placed into any role and they will be successful in it.
• Nurse Coaching promotes health systematically and addresses the physical yes, but also the other sides of health and wellness, like mental health, emotional health, spiritual health.
• Health is impacted by our communities, healthcare access, access to healthy food and water.
• How being ‘chased by a virus we can’t see’ affects our health by living in a constant level of increased stress. Nurse Coaches help clients and communities find ways to tackle stress in meaningful ways.
• How helping clients find Food Freedom through Whole 30 Coaching accesses a deeper view of self-awareness and less restrictive views about eating. Using Food and the Whole 30 System accesses self-awareness and link the awareness to food behaviors, ideas and habits.

Lindsay’s Top 'Soul-Care' Practices

• Get enough restful sleep and go to bed early.
• Move your body every day through yoga, Peloton biking, or a hike.
• Eat food that makes you happy, whether its chocolate or a Whole 30 meal.
• Access emotional and mental health through counseling and self- work.
• Release feelings of guilt for needing and doing self-care practices.
• Believe in your worth.
• Set boundaries.

Tips for Nurse Coaches and Healthcare Practitioners

• Set boundaries.
• Find what speaks to you and follow that.
• Sometimes creating a space for what you need help in, can be both a source of support and a source of revenue.
• Sometimes you will fail, but you learn so much in trying. So, give that vision, that thing you want to see happen, a try!

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Episode 2: Integrative Nurse Coach Anna Schlosser, BS, RN, NC-BC

"Nurse Coaching is becoming more mainstream and is having a huge impact on the wellness of our society and our culture. Nurse Coaches are special in that we have our knowledge base as a Nurse, in addition to the Coaching and Coaching skills. I see them very present. And I know we're doing the work to get health care to see how important we are. I envision us being in every doctor's office, in every healthcare setting, in every hospital. I see us being very present and helping our communities heal." Anna Schlosser

• Present healthcare is incomplete. If we continue to just share information and educate (which is important), the patient’s wishes, needs and desires get lost in the shuffle. Nurse Coaches are moving healthcare towards holistic health, integrating mind body spirit, healing.
• Nurse Coaching gets to the core of the issue, and dives below the surface to uncover possibilities that allow shifts in behavior to be more meaningful to clients, patients, and communities.
• Nurse Coaches use many modalities to partner with clients to uncover their deepest needs and desires. In this episode, Coach Anna RN speaks to meditation, Emotional Freedom Technique (tapping) and chakras, and how she uses these modalities in her practice.
• Self-care is not indulgent, it's not luxurious, I think we have this idea that it's selfish. And I would like for all of us to get over that. Doing what we need to do for ourselves and letting go of that shame and guilt around making our own decisions.
• Self-care is having compassion and kindness for myself and making choices that are right for me.
• Nurses don't have to have everything figured out or have all the answers. But we do have to do the inner work, so that we can hold space and be compassionate and empathetic and help someone else through.
• “To the Nurse Coach starting out, to the entrepreneurs who are starting their own businesses. Keep going. It's scary to be seen. It's scary to take yourself seriously. But it's important to keep doing the work because there are people out there who need you. You're contributing something special. And if you're feeling called to do it, then it's the right thing to do.” Anna Schlosser

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"Nurse Coaching is purposeful and strength based, and it is intended to connect with someone in a way that creates a really valuable partnership. ​That partnership allows people to develop self-confidence and to take steps towards their wellness." ~Alice Teall

• Silence and listening changes the dynamics of all relationships, making them more dynamic and authentic.
• It matters to teach healthcare professionals how to coach their patients and clients. It matters to the person using the coaching strategies, because they can feel effective, and it matters to the person they're coaching because instead of being told what to do, they can recognize they have strengths, and that they can change behavior.
• Health Coaching can happen in healthcare practitioner visits, and it doesn’t take long to do!
• Coaching can happen in 5-minute sessions, or an hour session, or anywhere in between. It can happen in a hallway discussion, or an actual scheduled coaching session. It can happen 1:1, or in groups.
• People need connection, and to know they have the ability within themselves to make a change that they want to make, or to be well in an area where they want to be well.
• Self-care does not need to be complicated. Self-care can mean doing something nurturing for one’s self.
• A simple way to learn about yourself is to understand how silence impacts you and your relationships.
• Many people newly diagnosed with a disease process can experience grief. Nurse Coaching conversations can help patients connect with these feelings and move forward.
• Nurses are incredible health coaches, because they bring their knowledge, skill, and expertise to every coaching interaction.
• Why the acronym W.A.I.T. (why am I talking?) is so important to all humans!