Darlene Hess

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Darlene Hess comes to coaching with an extensive background in health care and professional nursing education. As an experienced nurse educator, nurse practitioner, and consultant, she has created a successful coaching and consulting practice dedicated to serving nurses and others in their quest for enhanced well-being. Her business, DRH Coaching, offers professional coaching and consulting services to individuals and organizations.

Darlene Hess is licensed as a Registered Nurse and Certified Nurse Practitioner in New Mexico. Darlene has a PhD is in Health Education and Health Promotion from the University of New Mexico. She has two Master’s Degrees in Nursing, one as an Advanced Practice Nurse in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing from New Mexico State University, and the other as a Community Clinical Nurse Specialist/Family Nurse Practitioner from the University of Alabama in Birmingham.  She is board certified as an Adult Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and as an Advanced Holistic Nurse by the American Holistic Nurses Certification Corporation. She is credentialed as a certified coach by the International Coach Federation.

Darlene is Co-Director of a national task force commissioned by the American Holistic Nurse Certification Corporation to create role competencies and a certification process for nurse coaches.  She has co-authored several publications on nurse coaching including Facilitating change: Motivational Interviewing and Appreciative Inquiry, Nurse Coaching, Defining Holistic Nurse Coaching, White Paper: Holistic Nurse Coaching and The Art and Science of Nurse Coaching: The Provider’s Guide for Coaching Scope and Competencies. Dr. Hess has developed holistic nursing educational programs and courses and serves as an on-site evaluator for the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education. Her clinical experience includes critical care, correctional care, home health care, and primary care.

Darlene’s personal life experiences greatly enhance her professional credentials. She says “It is the examination of my own life and circumstances, my surrender to that which is greater than me, and my own search for meaning that has led me to this time and place where I now joyfully and skillfully give back that which I have become.”

Learn more about Darlene at www.brownmountainvisions.com. Contact her at (505) 228-8553 or at darlenehess@brownmountainvisions.com or darlenehess@comcast.net.