What is a Nurse Coach?

The role of the Nurse Coach is to be transformative by integrating his or her nursing education and clinical experience as a registered nurse into the coaching field to help clients rewrite their life stories. This specialization sets Nurse Coaches apart from other health and wellness coaches. The nursing profession is the only profession that has set the bar to establish high standards for nurse coaches to obtain board certification through specialized testing. Nursing professional accrediting agencies establish the certification for nurse coaches.

Since people often live in a world of personal and professional restrictions, the job of the Nurse Coach is to create safety and spaciousness for clients to help them dream, experiment, and implement new practices to build the courage to take action, learn, and grow. The Nurse Coach asks powerful, life-changing questions that expand clients' capacity for understanding the value of health (condition of the body) and wellness (condition of the mind and Spirit) to help them reach their highest potential. The Nurse Coach guides clients to live a new, intentional story built upon their values.

The role of the Transformative Nurse Coach is not to find quick fixes or put a bandage on problems that need deeper solutions but to create lasting lifestyle changes and fundamentally challenge your existing perspectives to make room for transformative growth.

Transformative Nurse Coaching, Peter Giza and Heather Lapides, Transformative Growth