Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION!

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, medit...

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."  ~Kar...

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 pr...

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 e...

"...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—...

"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."  ~Cl...

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 disc...

“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 pract...

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 Nu...

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 lis...

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...

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 every...

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 t...

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 agre...

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, HW...

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 organism...

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 m...

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 i...

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 nor...

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 hea...

 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...

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 C...

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, yo...

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 sel...

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...