Checkout the article by Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program grads, Nicole Vienneau and Denise Ervin, published in AHNA’s June 2019 Beginnings magazine!
As a nurse, do you wonder, “Why am I here? This isn’t what I expected.” Do you think, “I am a nurse because I want to help; I love connecting with people, listening and being part of their healing; so why do I feel disconnected to my deepest desires?” You are not alone. We felt it too; an uncomfortable and isolating feeling. A mismatch between intentions and the chaotic environments preventing us from living the nursing life we love. There is hope in healing. We found it, and so can you.
This is the story of how we – two burned-out critical care nurses living miles apart in different states – connected to share a similar healing journey to become nurse coaches. By embodying self-compassion and the framework of nurse coaching, we became reunited with our passion for nursing and ourselves as whole and unique nurses and human beings.
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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/
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Nicole Vienneauhttps://inursecoach.com/author/nicole-vienneau/
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Nicole Vienneauhttps://inursecoach.com/author/nicole-vienneau/
