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KarenAvino

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Karen Avino

EdD, RN, AHN-BC, HWNC-BC

Meet Karen

Karen Avino is the Director of Education for the Integrative Nurse Coach Academy and the International Nurse Coach Association providing online and onsite continuing education programs for nurses. As a consultant, Karen helps healthcare organizations create optimal healing environments and integrate holistic nursing into practice. She taught Holistic Nursing and Integrative Health for 20 years in online and on campus classes at the University of Delaware. She received the Faculty Senate Excellence in Academic Advising and Mentoring Award and the Delaware Excellence in Nursing Practice Award as Nurse Educator.

Karen has over 40 years of experience in Maternal-Child Health, Administration, Community Health, Holistic Nursing and Nurse Coach practice. She is board certified as both an Advanced Holistic Nurse and a Health & Wellness Nurse Coach. Karen is a Reiki Master, Stress Management Instructor, HeartMath, and Clinical Meditation and Imagery Practitioner.

Karen is a Director-At-Large board member of the American Holistic Nurses Association and a founding leader of the Delaware Chapter (DEAHNA). She is an author and editor of Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice (2016, 2021) and Core Curriculum for Holistic Nursing (2014). She is a Peer Reviewer for the Journal of Nursing Scholarship and Holistic Nursing Practice journals and is an international and national speaker on holistic and integrative topics.

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Karen Avino

Director of Education

Karen Avino is the Director of Education for the Integrative Nurse Coach Academy and the International Nurse Coach Associationproviding online and onsite continuing education programs for nurses. As a consultant, Karen helps healthcare organizations create optimal healing environments and integrate holistic nursing into practice. Karen taught Holistic Nursing and Integrative Health for 20 years in online and on campus classes at the University of Delaware. She received the Faculty Senate Excellence in Academic Advising and Mentoring Award. She also received the Delaware Excellence in Nursing Practice Award as Nurse Educator. She has over 40 years of experience in Maternal-Child Health, Administration, Community Health, Holistic Nursing and Nurse Coach practice. She is board certified as both an Advanced Holistic Nurse and a Health & Wellness Nurse Coach. Karen is a Reiki Master, Stress Management Instructor, HeartMath, and Clinical Meditation and Imagery Practitioner. Karen is a Director-At-Large board member of the American Holistic Nurses Association and a founding leader of the Delaware Chapter (DEAHNA). She is an author and editor of Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice (2016, 2021) and Core Curriculum for Holistic Nursing (2014). Karen is a Peer Reviewer for the Journal of Nursing Scholarship and Holistic Nursing Practice journals. She is an international and national speaker on holistic and integrative topics.

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    Amplify Your Voice
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    Amplify Your Voice
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    Survivor'S Guilt
    June 12, 2020
    A Nurse Survivor’s Guilt and The 5 Ways to Self-Care
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    Black Lives Matter - Don't Be Silent
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    Mindfulness
    April 28, 2020
    Mindfulness: Self-Care Strategies - 5 Simple Ways to Feel and be Better
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Amplify Your Voice

Let us Amplify Your Voice The injustice, discrimination, and brutality of People of Color will no longer

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June 12, 2020
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A Nurse Survivor’s Guilt and The 5 Ways to Self-Care

2020 has been traumatic and the majority of us are facing some form of survivor’s guilt. Traumatic

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June 12, 2020
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Mindfulness: Self-Care Strategies – 5 Simple Ways to Feel and be Better

In Integrative Nurse Coaching, using mindfulness and awareness practice techniques in practice provides a time for reflection and help patients reach their inner wisdom to come up with solutions or answers on their own. This awareness creates an openness to new possibilities and motivation or engagement to aspects of the experience, without judgement or attachment. There are a variety of guided awareness scenarios that can be used for particular situations in patient care based on the need. These are learned through the self-development process and practice of Integrative Nurse Coaching.

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April 28, 2020
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