Most everyone agrees that health coaching is one of the fastest growing healthcare trends today!

NSHC brings health coaching strategies and techniques to healthcare providers in all settings to enhance patient self-management of chronic conditions.

Health Coaching is being herald as an exciting, new way that healthcare providers can impact an individual’s ability to discover ambivalence toward health behavior change, to define related goals, and to identify obstacles to and support for health behavior change.

Coaching patients through self-discovery to uncover obstacles to progress and identify support that will help them make better healthcare decisions that are long-lasting is intended to reduce or minimize acute exacerbations that affect quality outcomes and increase our healthcare costs.

To afford the healthcare professional the training and education to become a health coach, the National Society of Health Coaches brings you Health Coaching Made Easy for Healthcare Providers, a premier training and certification program designed especially for Nurses, Therapists, Pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals.

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Health Coaching recognizes the Patient as the Center.

NSHC believes that we as healthcare professionals have tradionally provided health teaching in a "Do these things" type of approach that has not always supported true "patient-centered care". We believe that health teaching is best accomplished through the platform of health coaching and should include identifying patient/client goals, guidance to discover ambivalence to needed health behavior change, identifying support for change, minimizing or removing obstacles to change, and holding the patient/client accountable during the process. We believe when health coaching is implemented in this manner, that it can help enhance self-management of chronic conditions and improve health outcomes.

As a member of the NSHC you will receive the following benefits:

• Continuing Education
• On-Line Certification Exam
• NSHC Teleconferences
• FREE Health Coach e-News 'n Notes
• Standards of Health Coaching
• Free Access to our Resource Library

When you purchase the NSHC Health Coach Certification program, you get FREE first year NSHC membership and a handsome lapel pin with your order.