Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION!

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...

"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" Campanell...

“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 abo...

Highlights

"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 deve...

"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 f...

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? W...

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 ...

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 wa...

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...

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 wellnes...

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...

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&...

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 Hawkin...

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,...

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 ...

“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, ...

“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 j...

“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 ...

“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 wo...