Nurse Coaching: Integrative Approaches for Health and Wellbeing

by Barbara Montgomery Dossey, Susan Luck, Bonney Gulino Schaub

This is the first comprehensive Nurse Coach textbook that describes the theoretical and clinical relevance and practical application of an innovative, integrative, holistic, and integral nurse coaching model. This user-friendly book will guide your Nurse Coach practice to promote lifestyle behavioral change for health and wellbeing for both the nurse and the client/patient. It can be used in all healthcare environments and implemented in diverse settings including hospitals, communities, and private practice. In this book you will find theories and strategies to help you: Theory of Integrative Nurse Coaching; Integrative Nurse Coach Leadership Model; Integrative Nurse Coach Process and Competencies; coaching conversations, case studies, and coaching journeys with clients/patients; bio-psycho-social-spiritual-cultural-environment model of nurse coaching; evidenced-based coaching methodologies and practices; nutrition and environmental coaching skills; Integrative Health and Wellness AssessmentTM; nurse coach guidelines for practice, education, research, healthcare policy and advocacy; and integrative lifestyle resources and toolkit. This book is for all nurses and other health care providers seeking coaching knowledge and skills. For information on the Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program go to iNurseCoach.com

554 pages, Paperback

First published October 23, 2014

Reviews

[Suzi · Rating 2 out of 5]

This books is terribly outdated (2014!), includes what have to be fabricated case studies (what patients actually present as indicated in the book?), and fails to adhere to APA or MLA citation formats, which is highly suspect because the book is full of paraphrasing of others' work. Where is the main reference section? Reading this book actually aggravated me. My expectations were too high, I suppose. This book needs an overhaul and should probably be updated every 5 years, or so. Nurse coaching has many branches and each of these influences needs to be investigated regularly for critical updates and cited properly to give credit where credit is due... especially when integrating concepts developed by and used for psychotherapy. Some of the "expert" opinions they include are of eye-rolling quality. I even had an LCSW friend read the chapter about "making change and the will"... and she recommended consulting with an attorney before using any of the language presented in the book- to protect my license (since coaching requires no license and barely any education, clearly). Legitimate nurse coaching is extremely important work and this book doesn't do it justice. Disappointing. Two stars because there are good bones in some of the book, but it could be a 5 if reconceptualized.