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Blog spotlight: Professional life coaching in nursing

Nurse Leader Weekly, June 30, 2008

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This week, Phyllis Quinlan, RNC, MS, CLNC, CEN, CCRN, shares some insight on the possible benefits professional life coaching can bring to nursing:

So you still love nursing, but the stress, frustration, and sometimes confusion can be a real barrier to personal and professional satisfaction. You sense you want something more, although you can't quite identify what that might be or how to achieve it. A professional life coach may be just the solution to figuring out exactly what the next step is. Nurses have a longstanding reputation for eating their young. Wouldn't be great if there was a way to change that perception?

Professional life coaching for nurses can be one approach to doing just that. Coaching is not a clinical or therapeutic process. Coaching has its roots in wellness. The starting point for a professional life coach is that the person seeking the coaching is a healthy individual who is already competent and capable. He or she is in need of a safe sounding board, encouragement, and empowerment. The coaching relationship is based on mutual respect, trust, and honest communication.

Coaching is distinctly unique from—and not to be confused with mentoring. Mentoring usually prepares you for a particular professional role while coaching is focused on a self-development process.

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