I'm Lisa Rubino, a registered nurse.

I have been a nurse since 1993. For most of that time I worked in people's homes, which taught me how health advice meets real life.

I started on the hospital floor in Franklin Square, New York. I moved into home health on Long Island and spent nine years there before relocating to Charlotte, where I kept caring for patients at home, worked as a wound care nurse, and then took on leadership roles: I helped open a new branch that grew from nothing to a census of 220, and later directed a branch with a census of 588 and about 40 clinicians.

In 2026 I completed nurse coach training so I could do the part I enjoy most: helping women understand their health and follow through on it.

• 1993-2009Hospital nurse, then home health nurse, Long Island, New York
• 2009-2018Home health nurse, Charlotte, North Carolina
• 2018Wound care nurse
• 2018-2023Clinical manager, then director of healthcare services, home health, Charlotte
• 2023-nowClinical nurse in a medical practice

• RNRegistered nurse, North Carolina (active, multistate, no discipline). Verify
• 2004Bachelor of Science, Molloy College, cum laude
• 2026Certificate, Transformative Nurse Coach program, The Nurse Coach Collective
• 2017Wound Treatment Associate program, Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society (24 contact hours)
• 2025Basic Life Support provider, American Heart Association

Nurse coaching is a recognized nursing specialty. The training I completed is designed for registered nurses and builds on clinical experience; it is not a course clients take.

Transformative Nurse Coach Certificate, The Nurse Coach Collective (April 2026)

• A six-month program with 120 contact hours of nursing continuing education, approved by the American Holistic Nurses Association.
• A 60-hour practicum: 50 hours coaching 10 clients one-on-one, plus 10 hours of live supervised calls.
• Fifteen weeks of study: the nurse coaching process; co-creative skills; goals, action, insight and accountability; lifestyle medicine and nutrition; connection and mindfulness; movement and rest.

Wound Treatment Associate program, Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society (2017)

• 24 contact hours covering risk assessment, pressure-injury prevention, skin care, wound documentation, compression wraps, ankle-brachial index measurement and negative-pressure wound therapy.

What that means for you

• I was trained to help you set goals you choose, not goals handed to you, and to keep you accountable to them.
• The curriculum covers sleep, movement, nutrition and stress, which is where most of the day-to-day work of menopause and midlife health happens.
• Thirty years of clinical nursing sit underneath it: I know when something is outside coaching and belongs with your doctor or nurse practitioner.