Board Certified Nurse Coaches: A New Reality

This week, dear Readers, I'm writing this brief post to share with you the exciting news that I am now a Board Certified Nurse Coach (NC-BC)!Under the auspices of the American Holistic Nurse Certification Corporation (an arm of the American Holistic Nurses Association), a new designation has been created to recognize the new professional specialty of nurse coaching. This designation has been many years in the making, and the competencies of the Board Certified Nurse Coach have been designed to echo the backbone of the our profession--the nursing process.At this juncture, there are 83 Board Certified Nurse Coaches in the United States, and more nurses are scheduled to sit for the exam in November. For those of us nurses who have been coaching for some time already, there has been a small window in which we can attain certification on a fast track. That window is now closing, and subsequent applicants will embark on the full process of earning certification, even if they already have prior coaching experience. I'm delighted and honored to be among the vanguard of this new designation that is recognized by every major nursing organization, including the ANA. I have no doubt that nurse coaches will eventually permeate health care, from hospitals and factories to Fortune 500 companies and private practices.Nurse coaches will be one of the essential ingredients to delivering the gospel of preventive health and wellness to more and more individuals, and some nurse coaches will bring...
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