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NURSE COACHING IN PRACTICE · INTEGRATIVE NURSE COACH® ACADEMY

Integrating Nurse Coaching into Organizations and Communities

Bring Nurse Coaching into the places you already serve.

This course carries you from a clear, confident way to explain what you do to a finished Nurse Coaching proposal you can put in front of decision-makers. Evidence gathered. Objections answered. Workflow mapped. All of it built around your own organization or community, at your pace.

  • Self-paced, lifetime access
  • 4 modules + your final proposal
  • 40 contact hours
Register now · $997

Want both courses? Compare them side by side and enroll in both for $1,500.

(Post) How A Holistic Nurse Coach Can Help You Get Unstuck &Amp; Reach Your Goal

You've seen what coaching does for people. Nobody taught you how to make the case for it.

Nurses bring coaching conversations into their work every day, often without a name for it, a budget line, or a seat at the table where programs get approved. Moving Nurse Coaching from something you do quietly to something your organization supports takes a different set of skills: evidence, a clear value proposition, and answers ready for the questions leaders ask. So nurses with good ideas end up hearing the same things:

  • "We don't have time for this." Staffing is tight, and anything new sounds like more work.
  • "Isn't this just what nurses already do?" The difference is real, and hard to put into words on the spot.
  • "How will this be reimbursed?" Leaders need a financial case, not only a clinical one.
  • "This isn't evidence-based." The research exists. You need it in hand when the question comes.

None of these are dead ends. They’re questions, and each one has an answer. This course helps you build those answers in order, one module at a time.

Finish with a proposal, not just an idea.

Every assignment in this course feeds one deliverable: your Nurse Coaching proposal. Your journal notes, colleague interviews, evidence, and workflow map come together in the Organizational Assessment Tool, then into an implementation plan and a polished executive summary for decision-makers. By the final module you will have:

  • Elevator speeches for four audiences: administrators, providers, patients, and fellow nurses
  • A self-assessment of where coaching conversations already fit in your work
  • A reference list of research that supports Nurse Coaching in your setting
  • A one-page Value Proposition Brief with measurable outcomes and research citations
  • Findings from colleague interviews, including the champions who can back your proposal
  • A workflow map with 5 to 7 coaching touchpoints and a coaching question for each
  • A referral network directory, or an Appreciative Inquiry plan for a pilot program
  • Your completed proposal: Organizational Assessment Tool, implementation plan with milestones, outcome tracking system, and executive summary

“This course is designed to take you from envisioning possibilities to a concrete proposal for integrating Nurse Coaching into your organization or community.”

Four modules. Each one ends with something you've built.

Learn to explain what you do, and why it matters, to anyone who asks. Record elevator speeches for four audiences, reflect on where coaching conversations already happen in your work, and get your first look at the Organizational Assessment Tool that anchors your final proposal.

Build the case. Gather evidence, interview colleagues about patient empowerment and behavior change support, and write a one-page Value Proposition Brief for your manager. Then practice your answers to five common obstacles with other nurses in the course.

Get specific about where coaching fits. Map your workday to find coaching touchpoints, then choose your path: build a directory of referral resources, or use Appreciative Inquiry to plan a smaller pilot. Sample proposals show what integration can look like in practice.

Everything comes together. Complete your Organizational Assessment Tool, set goals, milestones, and your first three quick wins, design a simple outcome tracking system, and write your executive summary. Then form a peer accountability partnership to keep moving after the course ends.

Attest that your proposal is complete and submit a short course evaluation. Your Certificate of Completion and contact hours are sent to your email. No rubric. No grader. You know whether your proposal is ready.

Tools and examples that do real work.

Working documents and worked examples, so you never start from a blank page.

Organizational Assessment Tool

The backbone of your proposal. You'll fill it in as you go, then turn it into your implementation plan.

Value Proposition Brief

A one-page brief for your manager, with a sample to work from, at least three measurable outcomes, and research citations.

Sample Nurse Coaching proposals

Three worked examples: a diabetes management program, a proposal to administration, and a Nurse Coach leader proposal.

Obstacle scenarios

Five objections leaders often raise, practiced with your peers until your answers feel natural.

Coaching touchpoint map

Find 5 to 7 moments in your workday for a brief coaching conversation, each paired with one powerful coaching question.

Appreciative Inquiry Worksheet

Define, Discover, Dream, Design, Destiny. A smaller first step when a full proposal isn't the right move yet.

Outcome tracking system

A simple way to track coaching conversations, follow-through, and feedback, so a pilot produces data leaders can act on.

Executive summary

A sample to guide the polished document you bring to decision-makers.

Integrating Nurse Coaching In Organizations &Amp; Communities

Created by nurses, for nurses who lead change.

Generic leadership courses teach you to pitch a program. This course was built by nurses, and it treats Nurse Coaching like what it is: nursing. Your clinical education, your assessment skills, and your years inside real systems are what make your proposal credible. The course is built around that.

  • Video lectures from INCA faculty in every module, with required readings drawn from nursing research.
  • An appreciative inquiry approach: you start from what's already working in your setting, not from what's broken.
  • Real practice with peers: introductions, elevator speech feedback, obstacle scenarios, and an accountability partnership that continues for 90 days after the course.
  • Built for any setting: a hospital unit, a clinic, a community health center, or a faith-based wellness program.

“Nurse Coaching is nursing. Everything you’ve learned comes with you.”

A rhythm you can keep.

Each module follows the same pattern: a video lecture, readings and sample documents, journal assignments that become pieces of your final proposal, and discussions with other nurses in the course. When you finish a module’s assignments, you confirm them with a quick attestation and the next module unlocks.

Some nurses finish in a few focused weeks. Others take a few months between shifts. Both are right. Your access never expires.

Two ways to enroll.

Take this course on its own, or as part of the Integrative Nurse Coach® Certificate Program (INCCP):

Enroll in this course · $997

Self-paced, lifetime access, and 40 contact hours. Taking both Nurse Coaching in Practice courses? Enroll in both for $1,500.

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Included in INCCP pathways

The Implementation Pathway includes one of the two Nurse Coaching in Practice courses, your choice. The Expansion Pathway includes both, plus the Nurse Coaching Interventions™ bonus course and a 1:1 career pathway meeting.

Explore INCCP Pathways

Current INCCP student, or finished Practicum in the last 90 days? You may be able to add this course by upgrading your pathway instead. See pathway upgrades

AFTER THE COURSE

Bring INCA with you.

Your proposal is written to stand on its own. If your organization would like support putting it into practice, the Integrative Nurse Coach® Academy works with organizations through consultation and program delivery, with you as the Lead Nurse Coach.

When you’re ready, email support@inursecoach.com and we’ll start the conversation.

“Every conversation plants a seed.”

Take both courses.

Private practice and organizational work can grow side by side. Pair this course with Launching Your Nurse Coaching Business & Private Practice and enroll in both for $1,500.

Launching Your Nurse Coaching Business & Private Practice

Build a Nurse Coaching practice of your own: scope, pricing, services, brand, and a week-by-week 90-day launch plan. $997 on its own.

Explore the Business course

Both courses · $1,500

Both Nurse Coaching in Practice courses, 80 contact hours in total, self-paced with lifetime access. Compare them side by side before you enroll.

Compare both courses

Looking for the full Nurse Coach education? Both courses are also included in the Implementation and Expansion Pathways of the Integrative Nurse Coach® Certificate Program.

Frequently Asked Questions

Any nurse: RN, APRN, LPN, or LVN. You practice within the scope set by your state’s Nurse Practice Act.

If you’re in the Implementation Pathway and choose this course, yes. If you’re in the Expansion Pathway, yes, along with Launching Your Nurse Coaching Business & Private Practice. See the INCCP pathways for details. The Certification Pathway doesn’t include either course. Current students, and graduates within 90 days of finishing Practicum, can upgrade their pathway instead of enrolling separately.

Yes. The course is open to all nurses, including INCCP alumni: $997 on its own, or $1,500 together with the Business course.

Around 40 hours of guided work across four modules, including your final proposal. Self-paced, with lifetime access. A few focused weeks is realistic; several relaxed months is just as right.

Yes. Complete the module assignments and attestations, then submit the short course evaluation. Your Certificate of Completion and 40 contact hours are sent to your email, usually within 72 hours.

No. The course works for any setting where nurses serve people: hospital units, clinics, health systems, community health centers, and faith-based or community wellness programs. If you’re not ready for a full proposal, Module 3 offers a smaller first step: planning a pilot with Appreciative Inquiry.

The course prepares you for that conversation. You practice answers to five common obstacles, gather evidence, and identify champions before you present. A small pilot can also be an easier first step than a full program.

Yes. Compare the two courses and enroll in both for $1,500, or add the Business course later at its own price. Private practice and organizational work can grow side by side.

Yes. INCA works with organizations through consultation and program delivery, with you as the Lead Nurse Coach. Email support@inursecoach.com to start the conversation.

The people who need Nurse Coaching are already there.

You already know what coaching can do for people. This course is where you build the case that brings Nurse Coaching into the places you already serve.

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