Endorsed by:	American Association of Occupational Health Nurses
	Wingate University Department of Physician Assistant Studies
	Association for Home & Hospice Care of North Carolina South Carolina Home Care & Hospice Association

NSHC's health coach certification program is developed by clinicians for clinicians, practitioners and allied healthcare providers! The Lead Clinical Coaches at the NSHC understand first-hand your demanding work schedules and the challenges faced in assisting patients/consumers to live healthier lives and to better self-manage chronic conditions. Our program was developed with these important aspects in mind!

Overwhelmingly, NSHC's health coach certification program is the discriminating practitioner's choice! "Best in content and readily applicable!"

Evidence-based Health Coaching (EBHC)™ is one of the fastest growing healthcare trends today! It's not counseling, but specific conversations using an evidence-based framework that taps into one's own motivation for health behavior change. Unlike our traditional health teaching methods we've used in the past, the foundation of the NSHC program (having originated from the Motivational Interviewing (MI) concept of Drs. William Miller and Stephen Rollnick) engages individuals to maintain optimal health and reduce or minimize acute exacerbations associated with chronic conditions that affect quality outcomes and costs.

Health Coaching recognizes the Patient/Client as the "true" change agent!

NSHC believes that we as healthcare professionals have traditionally provided health teaching in a "Do these things" type of approach with the belief that individuals will follow our direction. However, the incidence of chronic conditions and associated healthcare costs continue to escalate. We must conclude in part that these traditional methods haven't worked very well!

We believe that health teaching is best integrated through the platform of evidence-based health coaching and should establish a true partnership, guide safe goal-setting, engage the individual to discover ambivalence toward health behavior change and hold the patient/client accountable during the process. We believe when health coaching is implemented in this way, it can help enhance self-management of chronic conditions, improve health outcomes and decrease costs!