Hello! I’m Gina.

I've been a nurse for almost 19 years. And if there's one thing I wish I could go back and tell my new-grad self, it's this: You are doing better than you think you are. Because I remember what it was like to be the new nurse who wasn't so sure. I was once the new grad who thought she wasn't good enough. When I started my nursing career, I carried a lot of insecurity and fear. I questioned myself constantly. Was I missing something? Was I making the right decision? Did everyone else know more than I did? What if I made a mistake? What if my coworkers thought I wasn't a good nurse?

I didn't have the tools I have now to navigate those thoughts and feelings. So when I struggled in my first nursing job, I assumed the problem was me. Eventually, I transferred to another unit. At the time, it felt like I had failed. But looking back years later, I can see something I couldn't see then: I wasn't failing. I was a new nurse learning how to be a nurse. And I desperately needed someone to tell me that I was going to be okay.

And then… I found coaching. It felt like someone had turned on a light in a dark room. I started seeing myself, my work, and the circumstances around me differently. I learned how to have more self-compassion. I learned how to process difficult emotions. I learned that a thought can feel true without actually being a fact. I learned how to focus on what I could control instead of spending so much energy on everything I couldn't. And slowly, things began to change. I finally learned how to trust myself as a nurse.

Over the years, I kept hearing things that sounded so familiar from newer nurses I worked with. The self-doubt. The fear of making a mistake. The worry about what coworkers and preceptors thought. The feeling that everyone else seemed to know what they were doing. The pressure to get everything right. The belief that struggling meant you weren't cut out for nursing. I knew those thoughts because I had thought them, too. And I couldn't stop thinking about how different my own early nursing experience might have been if someone had taught me these tools from the beginning. That's why I became a life coach for new graduate nurses. I‘m here to give you the tools I wish I had.