Today's nurses need to operationalize an evidence-based change and educational coaching model that can assist in the behavioral management of the client's general healthcare issues to the treatment of cancer, to working with individuals through the documented stages of death and dying. Nurses require validated methodologies, reliable tools and techniques that they can use to teach patients self-care skills and cognitive control.

Validated Behavioral Change through the use of Evidence-based Coaching:
Nurses are frequently required to design a validated proven behavioral-based program to facilitate the cognitive emotional processing of the patient's experience and to add to the patient and family members' repertoire of behavioral self-care and self-management skills. Professional Nurse coaching also requires a practice framework that complements patient teaching and supportive therapy as a method for enhancing self-care and self-management behavior for patients and their family members.

In summary, nurses as coaches:

• apply a holistic and integrative health perspective in an ongoing partnership designed to help people make healthy changes that impact them personally and collectively.
• see people as whole and support them as they access their natural ability to heal.
• value the whole person and understand how health and wellbeing are created through everyday choices and behaviors.
• know how to employ psychological-based coaching to guide and support others in their healing journey.

• provide a validated, reliable structure and approach to custom fit attainable, measurable behavioral change.

The Behavioral Institute's Certified Master Coach Course also shows nurses how to establish and successfully manage a professional health coaching practice. Invited course participants also learn the importance of engaging in their own personal growth and healing in order to work successfully with others. Nurse coaching includes several core processes, including; Education, Data Collection, Planning, Behavioral Change, Measurement, Evaluation and Maintenance.

Nurse Managers / Healthcare Administrators:
The conventional wisdom has been that career coaching is an important part of the nurse manager's role. In the current stressful healthcare environment, nurse managers seem more than ever in need of direction in this area. Behavioral-based coaching is able to significantly enhance the nurse manager's traditional role as a career coach and their aim to best support staff with their career development.

The transition from traditional management to patient-focused leadership has challenged many nurse managers to re-examine the usefulness of many traditional management skills. Patient-focused restructuring has changed the role of a traditional Nurse Manager to a leader/coach of empowered staff. Managers now maintain responsibility for managing multiple disciplines, self-directed work teams, and redeployed services. Behavioral-based coaching provides the manager the key for success in staff education, modeling coaching behaviors, staff empowerment and leading self-directed work teams etc.

A workplace coaching culture is the key to creating work environments with good retention, work satisfaction, and high-quality measures. In this learning and supportive environment nurses not only learn how as caregivers they can collaborate in providing the highest quality care but also learn how to self-coach, be more self-aware, control their emotions and develop themselves.

Nurse as Coach -the Certified Master Coach Course:
Many vital practice assessment and measurement instruments the nurse as coach requires are only available to coaches trained and mentored by a facilitator who is also a licensed clinical psychologist. Our Certified Master Coach Course is the only international coach training program that provides personal instruction in how-to-use the necessary validated tools for obtaining and measuring lasting behavioral coaching outcomes.

In the invitational Master Coach course, several valid scientific models of behavioral change (including the Solution Focused and Cognitive Models) are extensively reviewed. Only evidence-based, validated, behavioral scientific models, accelerated behavioral change tools and techniques etc are used in the award-winning course (personally conducted by Dr Skiffington). Participants learn first-hand, how to best select and apply the appropriate model to best suit the intervention they would be working in.

The fast-tracked, 4 Day, Very Small Group Certified Master Coach course is delivered in New York, London, Sydney etc or is held on-site for a small number of an organization's associates. Some recent clients who have had some key staff undertake the course include; University Hospital Birmingham, Mt Sinai Hospital, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Red Cross etc.