Health and Wellness Nurse Arlinda

I have been a Registered Nurse for 12 years. I started as a new nurse in the Operating Room at a level 1 trauma hospital, circulating and scrubbing in surgical services such as Spine, Neuro, Ortho, Joints, Trauma, GYNE, Oncology, ENT, Plastics, Bariatric, General, Vascular, Colorectal, Pediatrics, Urology, Thoracic, and Robotics, as well as being charge nurse, managing dozens of nurses, techs, doctors, and patients on a daily basis.

After 12 years as an operating room nurse and 17 years experience in the hospital setting, I started to notice how sick (and getting sicker) patients were. The more surgeries I worked on, the more I realized that almost all the surgeries we were performing were due to unhealthy lifestyle choices and almost 100% preventable, if patients made better, healthier lifestyle choices.

In June 2023 I was completely burned out. I needed to use my nursing skills and experience to promote health, prevent diseases, most importantly chronic diseases, and hopefully help patients reverse majority of the chronic diseases by educating and helping them make better lifestyle choices.
It became clear that the path I wanted to continue was holistic care. Help people find the root cause of their problems, learn how to read food labels, learn about ultra processed foods, food preservatives, pesticides, lack of vitamins, minerals, over prescription of medications and how all these are making us chronically sick.
In August 2023 I started working as a school nurse in middle school where I oversee 500+ students and staff. I manage students with chronic diseases such as Diabetes, Asthma, ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, Obesity, Autoimmune disorders and many more.

To further my holistic education, I became Nurse Coach Board Certified (NC-BC), soon after I became Holistic Nurse Baccaularete Board Certified (HNB-BC) and Health and Wellness Nurse Coach Board Certified (HWNC-BC).
My goal and mission now is to serve people by helping and educating them on health, wellness, health promotion and disease prevention so they can live longer, healthier, fuller lives.