Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION!

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.”...

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, y...

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 aboutGroup Coaching allows for more touch and connection with more humansTry 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...

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 rea...

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 m...

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 y...

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...

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 op...

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 t...

“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 symptomologyNocebo is a negative suggestion, like...

“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 exp...

“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 futureMindfulness can help with suffering, anxiety, emotions hidden away, forgiveness, how to recognize feelings and how to recognize and be wi...

“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 int...

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...

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...

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 timeOur younger Nurses are training younger Nurses as preceptors, teachers, and mentors.  Many of them don’t have lots of experien...

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 difficultAlone is no longer e...