Stepping Stone Advocacy Services Creates a New Creative Pathway for Nurses Looking to Pivot Away from the bedside

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Stepping Stone Advocacy Services Creates a New Creative Pathway for Nurses Looking to Pivot Away from the bedside.

Stepping Stone Advocacy Services not only supports patients but also stands as a vital resource for nurses, empowering them to take on new roles with confidence and skill. Recognizing the critical role nurses play in patient-centered care, Stepping Stone offers tools, training, and ongoing support designed to meet the unique needs of nurses transitioning into new roles. By also providing additional coaching programs, the platform equips nurses with specialized knowledge, practical strategies, and a supportive community, helping them enhance their impact both at the bedside and beyond.

Many nurses have successfully pivoted away from bedside roles, moving into diverse fields like case management, legal nurse consulting, health coaching, telehealth, and medical writing. Driven by a desire to use their expertise in innovative ways, these nurses apply their clinical knowledge in roles that offer flexibility, often reduce physical demands, and allow them to impact healthcare from different angles.

Stepping Stone Advocacy Services offers additional training from these experienced nurses who have already made such transitions, providing hands-on insights and tailored guidance for those looking to pivot. These expert-led training sessions allow nurses to learn directly from peers who understand the healthcare landscape and can share strategies for navigating licensure requirements, building a client base, and expanding skill sets in new fields. This peer support fosters confidence, enabling nurses to take informed steps toward new career paths while staying rooted in their passion for healthcare and advocacy.

The mini-business courses offered on the platform are designed to empower nurses with essential business skills, effectively “closing the circle” to support them in launching new careers and businesses in healthcare advocacy and related fields. These courses cover practical topics like business planning, marketing, client acquisition, financial management, and legal considerations, which are often new to nurses transitioning from clinical roles.

Through this focused training, nurses gain the confidence and tools to establish their own advocacy services, consulting practices, health coaching, or telehealth solutions. By learning how to structure and scale a business, manage budgets, and build a client-centered brand, nurses can take their expertise beyond the traditional healthcare setting to create thriving, sustainable businesses. Stepping Stone thus provides not only the knowledge but also the entrepreneurial foundation that helps nurses step into business ownership, opening doors to impactful new career opportunities that leverage their clinical skills and compassion in innovative ways.

Contact us at www.steppingstoneadvocacy.com to learn more about how this new creative pathway can open new doors for you, as nurses.

Designed by Nurses who have pivoted, Offered to Nurses Looking to Pivot, and Supported by Businesses Who Can Provide Nurses with Real Life Solutions to Starting their Own Businesses.

LORI IS EXTREMELY TALENTED!

What a great use of Lori’s talents!

I worked with Lori for several years during my career as an orthopedic surgeon. I know her to be not only compassionate and understanding but also a tireless advocate for what is right.

In difficult situations she was unwavering in her quest to enable me to provide the best possible care for my patients. She knows the system and how to work through it (and around it whenever necessary

LORI JUMPED RIGHT IN

If you are in need of a patient advocate, I would highly recommend Lori Schellenberg. She is extremely knowledgeable, effective, and professional. Knows when to be strong and forceful yet loving and caring with your loved one and your family. I was concerned about an elderly family member who had several severe falls, was forgetting to take medication, not eating healthy and not keeping up with housekeeping yet insistent she was fine and staying in her home. Even though Lori lived out of state she made phone calls on our behalf, made several recommendations to help us provide what our loved one needed and was an intermediary when it was necessary. Lori’s knowledge of geriatrics, continuous care/assisted living facilities, the health care system, long term care insurance and hospice is invaluable. She helped us put together a plan that provided the best and continuous care necessary for our loved one and our family. We are extremely thankful for her help and look forward to continuing to work with her as our loved one moves through the next phases of her life’s journey, thus enabling us to create loving memories.

LORI JUMPED RIGHT IN

My husband underwent nasal surgery 6 months ago, after he had a negative sleep study test and was referred to an ENT doctor due to continued fatigue and snoring.

Unfortunately, he developed two different serious infections, and we were concerned about his ongoing treatment with the ENT. In fact, we were very anxious because he wasn’t getting better but the surgeon was not clear with us as to what to do next.

When describing what was going on, Lori jumped right in, when she found out my husband was actually at the surgeon’s office at that time, and still did not understand the situation. She recommended that my husband ask to have the surgeon come back into the room, and to call her so that she could speak to the surgeon with my husband in the room. Lori was very professional and knowledgeable in her approach with his surgeon. She established a treatment plan, in a way that my husband could understand, and why this was the plan. She also discussed the “what ifs” the current treatment plan did not work. He ordered further tests to be completed prior to his next appointment, if he did not improve.

She followed up with my husband and I to make sure we understood the plan.

By advocating for my husband, Lori relieved a lot of anxiety and stress that this current medical concern was causing, and they felt more confident in the surgeon’s care.

We highly recommend Lori and Stepping Stone Advocacy Services, if you are experiencing a medical condition, and don’t know where to turn for answers. She is experienced and professional, yet able to discuss medical terms in a way that we understood.