Featured Nurse Coach: Carla Baumann, MSN, RN, NC-BC
As a nurse coach, I work with nurses, individuals, groups, and communities seeking experiences of healing and wholeness. My practice, Osage Nurse Coaching, provides a farm-based center for healing. Inspired by the work of Kentucky author and poet Wendell Berry related to culture and agriculture, I believe that being connected to the rhythms and seasons of the farm can inspire others on their journey to wholeness and well being. Farms and farming can teach us about health and healing.
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Environmental health has been a key factor in nursing’s holistic and integrative view of health from the beginning of the nursing profession. One of Florence Nightingale’s main pillars of health was strict environmental control. Nightingale knew that putting the patient in the healthiest environment was essential for healing to occur. The green hospital movement, inspired by nurses and by our Nightingale lega........ 
A Brief Historical Timeline of Aromatherapy........ 
To highlight these outstanding contributions, we’re proud to offer a podcast, 
Christine Gilchrist, MSN MPH RN NC-BC
As a community health nurse, I greatly value looking at the bigger picture when considering the health of an individual. With that in mind, I wanted to share how grateful I am to an inspiring community that has supported my growth as a person and as a professional.
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A Snow Angel made by one of our graduates as a reminder of the magic of creative fun
Catherine Errico, one of our graduates, recently shared this healing interaction with a client:
I saw a client the other day that I had coached over the summer. When I met her in May, she w........ 
Change. That six-letter word. Over the years, I have often thought “if only there was some other word.” Another word with softer edges; one that had a gentler impact. In my line of........ 
Featured Nurse Coach: Gretchen Schodde, MN, ARNP, FNP-BC, NC-BC
Much of my professional life has been about building community, collaborations, and innovations in ways to practice. I felt called early in my career to be “part of the creation of an educational, recreational, therapeutic community.” Although it took fifteen years from the time of that calling ........ 
This October I turn 64 years young; how did this happen already? I remember when my grandmother told me she was 64. I was literally amazed that someone could be that old, yet often I was asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said I wanted to be an old woman. I desired to be like my grandmothers. I wan........ 
The International Nurse Coach Association honors all nurses for their contributions, creativity, and innovations as leaders in transforming health care in today’s changing environment. During Nurses Week, May 6-12, 2014, we celebrate our nursing legacy with Florence Nightingale: “No amount of medical knowledge will lessen the a........ 
