Congratulations to James Welch, AHNCC Board Treasurer, for being celebrated in SigEp Journal. Jim has been a Holistic Nurse for 40 years and his approach to nursing, as well as his personal life, is based on his ability to embrace and engage his spirit, mind, emotions, and body in all that he does. Rather than focus on bio-medical tasks, Jim focuses on his client’s lives. This emphasis facilitates people to open up to him and share information that will help promote their healing and well-being. Jim’s work with the American Holistic Nurses Credentialing Corporation gives him the opportunity to continue to support diverse nursing populations through a Holistic Nursing lens . Give Jim a big shout out for his tremendous work to move Holistic Nursing forward..
On July 24, 2025, the American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA) announced its endorsement of the Liberated Nurse Business Academy, founded and managed by Sharon Burch, MSN, APRN, through her company New Directions for Nurses, Inc.
The Liberated Nurse Business Academy offers entrepreneurial nurses online business education, coaching, advising, peer interaction, and accountability support. This comprehensive, professional development program empowers nurses to transform their education and experience into thriving, nurse-directed businesses.
The Liberated Nurse Business Academy is designed to help three types of nurses – those who are
THINKING ABOUT starting a business and have questions
READY TO START a business and want expert guidance
HAVE A BUSINESS and want to take it to the next level
Our clients value their nursing identity and the public’s trust. Now, they want to learn how to grow thriving, sustainable businesses that expand their freedom, fulfillment, and financial security.
Through its two programs, the Liberated Nurse Business Incubator and the Liberated Nurse Business Accelerator, the Liberated Nurse Business Academy offers up to 100 continuing nursing education (CNE) contact hours that are accepted for RN license renewal in all 50 states.
Sharon Burch, MSN, APRN, PHCNS-BC, APHN-BC, HWNC-BC, is the Founding President and CEO of New Directions for Nurses. Sharon lives in Lawrence, KS. She has been a holistic nurse entrepreneur since 1984 and a holistic continuing nursing education (CNE) provider since the mid-1990s, when she pioneered selling CNE courses online. Since then, she’s studied business in depth with many business mentors and translated their business practices into nursing practices.
Sharon has founded several successful for-profit and nonprofit businesses, including a hospital-based massage therapy group practice, and provided business development and marketing consultation to the American Holistic Nurses Association, the American Holistic Nurses Credentialing Corporation, the Hawaii Yoga Institute, and others.
Today, she directs New Directions for Nurses, where the Liberated Nurse Business Academy helps entrepreneurial nurses own their power, realize their potential, and grow thriving, sustainable businesses they love.
American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA) endorses CNE programs that align with its mission, vision, purpose, and the Scope and Standards of Holistic Nursing Practice. Programs undergo a rigorous peer-review process and require Board of Directors approval. To be eligible for endorsement, a holistic CNE program must already be approved for at least one year by AHNA or another ANCC-accredited approver.
Founded in 1981, AHNA is a non-profit professional organization for registered nurses and is located in Topeka, KS. Its mission is to advance holistic nursing through practice, community building, advocacy, research, and education. AHNA focuses on evidence-based holistic research, self-care for nurses, and non-pharmacological pain management, offering networking and continuing education to its over 5,300 members in 136 chapters across the USA and internationally. The American Nurses Association (ANA) recognizes holistic nursing as an official nursing specialty.
The American Holistic Nurses Credentialing Corporation (AHNCC) attended the AHNA Conference June 10-14 in Reno, Nevada. Several hundred nurses were in attendance. There was an extensive array of sessions from Reiki to Energy Healing to Planetary Health. The atmosphere was electric as nurses showed their excitement at becoming certified and spending time with those nurses who are like minded and certified already. AHNCC had their own booth and had many giveaways and information on Certified Holistic Nursing and Certified Nurse Coaching. AHNCC hosted a reception with over 125 in attendance. If you would like to see some of the many images from the conference click here. If you would like to request an image please contact connections@ahncc.org
Rhode Island Holistic Healing Association (RIHHA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. We are a community of individuals committed to holistic health, including those who take personal responsibility for their own healing and wellness, holistic health care practitioners, providers, businesses, and shops in and around Rhode Island.
Our mission is to educate and build awareness while advocating for increased access to holistic modalities. We aim to share, support, and complement all aspects of well-being, including physical, environmental, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social health, thereby contributing to the healing of ourselves and our planet.
Membership is open to individuals, practitioners, suppliers, store owners, and all related professions within the holistic and alternative medical community. Our annual dues are affordable. If you resonate with our mission and seek to connect with like-minded individuals, we invite you to join us.
AHNA Endorses the Liberated Nurse Business Incubator Program
Please join me in celebrating: the American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA) has officially endorsed the Liberated Nurse Business Incubator program!
What Is the American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA)?
AHNA is a national nursing organization committed to bringing holism, compassion, science, and creativity to nursing practice.
What Is AHNA Endorsement?
AHNA Endorsement recognizes CNE programs that
Offer learning content based on a
Pass a rigorous application and peer review process with AHNA’s Program Recognition Committee
Receive final approval by the AHNA Board of Directors
The Liberated Nurse Business Incubator is one of only 13 programs endorsed by the AHNA.
What Is the Liberated Nurse Business Incubator (LNBI)?
LNBI is a comprehensive business education program designed to give nurse coaches, consultants, and healing arts entrepreneurs the business education, tools, and mindset support they need to start and grow sustainable businesses.
Participants move through four key phases:
Unlocking their entrepreneurial potential
Choosing their best business idea and verifying its value
Learning how to respectfully attract clients
Generating a steady, sustainable income
Participants learn how to practice in their legal lane, price their offers, and grow their business based on cost-effective marketing and sales experiments.
All of this is delivered through self-paced lessons, coaching in small groups and individually, and accountability support… and it comes with an extraordinary success guarantee!
On top of all this, participants earn 60 CE contact hours accepted for holistic nurse and nurse coach certification, recertification, and RN license renewal in all 50 states!
Sharon Burch, MSN, APRN, PHCNS-BC, APHN-BC, HWNC-BC designed the Liberated Nurse Business Incubator based on her observations and experiences in over 40 years of starting, maintaining, and selling private and group practices, and serving as a consultant to for-profit and nonprofit businesses.
No other business education program for nurses is built on so much experience, wisdom, and heart.
Linda and Johanna represent AHNCC for Certified Nurses Day at Highland Hospital in Rochester, New York. They handed out bookmarks and treats and let nurses know how to get certified in Holistic Nursing. Thank you Linda and Johanna.
I am honored and excited to shared that I have been selected as one of 11 individual to receive this year’s Latino Business Leadership Award by Silicon Valley Business Journal. Thank you Anna Dapelo-Garcia for nominating me. I appreciate your friendship and recognition of my contributions to nursing and our Latino community.
Here are this year’s Latino Business Leadership honorees
SVBJ’s annual Latino Business Leadership Awards. By Neal Waters – Associate Managing Editor, Silicon Valley Business Journal Jan 27, 2025
The Silicon Valley Business Journal is honoring 11 individuals and three companies in its Latino Business Leadership Awards program for 2025.
The program recognizes the outstanding business and community impact of Silicon Valley professionals of Latino or Hispanic descent. Profiles of the honorees will be printed in the April 4 edition of the SVBJ and on our website around that time.
On April 3, we will gather at the Westin San Jose for a special celebration for our award winners. This year’s honorees are:
Lifetime Achievement Jorge Reguerin: Vice President – SBA Business Development Officer, Santa Cruz County Bank
Individuals América Aguirre Gomez: Managing Director, CORAL Afterschool/Extended Learning Program, Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County Rolando Bonilla: Chief Strategy Officer, Voler Strategic Advisors Laura Gutierrez: Enterprise Director for Clinical Laboratory & Pathology Services, El Camino Health Frank Carbajal: Founder and President, Es Tiempo Grissel Hernandez: Vice President – Professional Development, Research & Magnet, Stanford Health Care Tony Martinez: Co-Founder & CEO, Negozee Sofy Navarro: Senior Manager, 49ers EDU, San Francisco 49ers Alejandrina Rincon: Chief of Equity, Inclusion & Diversity/Obstetrics and Gynecology Surgeon, Kaiser Permanente Pamela Talledo Lujan: Senior Director, Senior Corporate Counsel, Oportun Andre Thiollier: Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP Companies/Organizations ATR International Inc. Tico Coffee Roasters Latino Business Foundation
Award-winning nurse coach pioneer, Linda Bark, PhD, RN, MCC, NC-BC, NBC-HWC has released a new online course that offers 30 CNE contact hours for nurse coach recertification. The self-paced Whole Being Coaching Course helps both new and experienced coaches learn transformative holistic tools to level up their coaching. Click on the image below to view a quick video about the Wisdom of the Whole Coaching Academy’s new program:
