Being a board-certified Nurse Coach Entrepreneur has created opportunities that I longed for in my nursing career. For over 15 years as a critical care Nurse, I struggled with our healthcare system that isn’t set up to allow for meaningful conversations and true, sustainable connections to patients. Plus, it focuses on disease, and I wish there were no disease, so prevention is very important to satisfaction as a healthcare provider. Creating my own Nurse Coach business called Blue Monarch Health, PLLC allows me to practice as a Nurse who has time to share meaningful moments, to listen with great care and presence, and to partner with clients to help them discover their true health. We focus on preventing and mitigating disease, instead of treating it and this hope brings clients power.
One way I do this is through small group education and coaching. I attended the first International Nurse Coach (INCA) and Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) functional nutrition educational collaboration. Using the skills, concepts and tools I learned there, I established a small group coaching model to increase personal client discovery and growth. We use the IFM’s Elimination Food Plan coupled with Nurse Coaching skills, education facilitation, and group member support to enhance a personalized understanding of how food affects participants health. Small groups boost socialization and awareness by sharing ideas, stories, motivation and accountability, plus, it is fun! As a Nurse Coach nothing is more satisfying than witnessing a ‘light bulb moment’; when a client truly grasps the impact that nutrition has on their body, mind and spirit, AND that they have the power to use nutrition and their own awareness as tools for their best health!
It is exciting to learn that INCA and IFM’s partnership is growing and that Nurse Coaches are using nutrition and functional medicine tools to enhance their client’s health and their own skills as Nurses. I look forward to our next INCA/IFM collaboration at Kripalu in Stockbridge, MA for the Clinical Nutrition and Functional Medicine for Nurses: An Integrative Nurse Coach Approach April 18-22, 2018. I’ll be there- will you? I hope you join us!
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Nicole Vienneau is the founder of Blue Monarch Health, PLLC, a Nurse Coaching practice led by Registered Nurses who create actionable wellness plans to make brains and bodies feel alive.
She believes each person holds their own wisdom and power, and that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to healthcare, which is why she is so passionate about enhancing the power and voice of Nurse Coaches as co-founder of the National Nurse Coach Network. She believes Nurse Coaches are essential to healing healthcare.
Nicole was an ICU RN for many years and suffered compassion fatigue. She left bedside Nursing fearing she had lost her love of caring for patients. What she discovered, was she needed to heal from the daily suffering and stress of the critical care environment. On her journey to healing, she discovered Nurse Coaching which helped her instill joy, self-compassion and self-care into her daily life. She attributes the Nurse Coach Community to her healing, and is why she is an advocate for Nurse Coaching for all Nurses!
Nicole is Senior Nurse Coach Faculty with the International Nurse Coach Association and the Integrative Nurse Coach Academywhere she thrives teaching Nurses health and wellness coaching through the Nursing lens.
Her educational background includes a Masters in Nursing Science and Systems Leadership from the University of Arizona (Go Cats!), a BS in Nursing Science from Grand Canyon University and a diploma in Nursing from Fanshawe College in Canada. She also obtained an esteemed board certification in Nurse Coaching from the American Holistic Nurses Credentialing Corporation.
Nicole is a fitness professional with multiple certifications, yoga teacher, Nurse Coach activist, and a retired Reebok-sponsored fitness athlete and national fitness presenter and trainer. When she’s not coaching clients or writing blogs, you can find her teaching active older adult fitness classes, volunteering with the Alzheimer’s Association, lounging in the sun with her cat babies, or on a hike with her awesome husband.
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- Nicole Vienneauhttps://inursecoach.com/author/nicole-vienneau/
- Nicole Vienneauhttps://inursecoach.com/author/nicole-vienneau/
- Nicole Vienneauhttps://inursecoach.com/author/nicole-vienneau/
