About

It is my heartfelt desire to inspire and motivate you to make behavior and lifestyles changes To do your best ~ Be your very best ~ At all times ~ Not at any particular time ~ To love yourself – Truly Love Yourself ~ As You Are No Matter what is happening around you – Especially when things are not happening when you want ~ The way you want.

Healthy regards,

Yolanda G. Smith, RN, MSN, CCRN
Founder/Director
Holistic Self-Care: Just For Me, Inc.

Certificate Program

• ROI Methodology™ Certification – ROI Institute Canada: (November 28- December 2, 2011) ROI Institute – Ottawa, Canada
  

• Change Agent Certification – Certification In The Managed Change™ Process: (September 30 – November  14, 2011) Lamarsh & Associates, Chicago, IL  

• Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People To Change – A Theory and Skill Building Training Seminar: October 17 – 19, 2011 – New York, NY

• Tai Chi Easy – Practice Leader Training Certification: (July 3 – 8, 2011) Omega Institute – Rhinebeck, NY.

• The Integrative Healing Arts Program – Session One: Holistic Practice and The Nurse Healer – The BirchTree Center for Health Care Transformation, Inc. (March 31 – April 3, 2011) Carmel Retreat Center – Mahwah, New Jersey
  

• Crucial Conversations Training – Vital Smarts, Inc. (April 27-28, 2010) New York, NY
  

 

Certification Credentials 

• Certified Wellness Mapping 360° ©  II: Health Challenges & Applications Wellness Coach – Real Balance Wellness Services LLC (November 2008)
• Certified Wellness Mapping 360° © Wellness Coach – Real Balance Wellness Services LLC (September 2008)
• Certified Wellness Speaker – National Wellness Institute, Inc. (July 2008)
• Certified Compassion Fatigue Educator – Figley Institute, Inc. : Academy of Traumatology (June 2008)
• Certified Girls Circle Facilitator: Promoting Resiliency in Adolescent Girls – Girls Circle Association (June 2008)
• Certified Reiki Master/Teacher – Shinpiden Level III Usui Reiki Ryoho: International House of Reiki (October 2007)
• Certified Meditation Teacher Training – Transformation Meditation (August 2007)
• Certified Reiki Practitioner – Usui Shiki Ryoho Second Degree: Reiki Arts Continuum (August 2006)
• Certified Reiki Practitioner – Usui Shiki Ryoho First Degree: Reiki Arts Continuum (July 2006)

 Additionally, Ms. Smith has completed Special Training from The International Critical Incident Stress Foundation in the following programs:

1.      Critical Incident Stress Management in the Healthcare Setting (September 20-21, 2007)

2.      Critical Incident Stress Management: Group Crisis Intervention (June 15-16, 2007)

3.      Advanced Group Crisis Intervention (June 6-7, 2007)

4.      Corporate Crisis Response: Critical Incident Stress Management in The Workplace (June 4-5, 2007)

Ms. Smith is a professional registered nurse with 29–years of experience and has synthesized the expertise she has attained in the following positions to establish her holistic business:  Associate Director of Nursing – Cardiothoracic Surgical Services, Critical Care Nurse Educator, Nursing Faculty, Adjunct Nursing Instructor, Staff Nurse CTICU and Nursing Education Consultant ~ Curriculum Design & Program Development.

Ms. Smith is also the Founder/President of YGS Medical–Legal Consulting established June 1997. She is a Legal Nurse Consultant/Testifying Expert Witness, Speaker, Educator and Clinical Documentation Specialist.

Ms. Smith has developed over 20 clinical nursing programs and the following wellness, disease management, stress management, health promotion and prevention educational programs:

• Refilling Your Well: Self–Care Essentials For Nurses – Spa Program (© 2011 – YGS)
• Self–Care Essentials For Women™ – Heart-To-Heart Matters: Connecting Body Mind & Spirit (© 2010 – YGS)
• Creating A Healthy Safer Work Environment: Leadership Workshop Series (© 2010 – YGS)
• Self–Care Essentials For Healthcare Providers utilizing Holistic Self-Care Wellness Model (© 2007 – YGS) and Nursing Standards of Self-Care (© 2008 – YGS)
• Leadership From The Inside Out – Learning To Lead Through Crucial Conversations™ utilizing Prochaska Readiness For Change Model
• Holistic Stress Management Program (© 2007 – YGS)
• Rx For Compassion Fatigue: Self-Care Essentials For Frontline Clinicians (© 2008 – YGS)
• Awakening The Woman Within: Embracing Your Shadow & Loving Yourself (© 2009 – YGS)
• Love Yourself From The Inside Out: Promoting Resiliency, Confidence & Self-Care In Young Girls (© 2009 – YGS)
• Self–Care Essentials For A Healthier Life™: Healthy Living With Chronic Disease – Self–Management Program (© 2008–YGS)

Ms. Smith created and utilizes her Holistic Self–Care Wellness Model (© 2007–YGS) as a foundation as a Wellness Coach to assist individuals/groups gain personal insight into their state of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual wellness. The foundation of the model is to create a balanced integrated healthy life by focusing on eight essential areas: Work/Career, Emotional Self, Mental Self, Relationships, Intimacy, Physical Body, Finances and Soul/Spirit in making lasting lifestyle changes. 

 

• Beth Israel Hospital
• Brookdale Medical Center
• Cabrini Medical Center
• Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn and Queen, Inc.
• CMC: St. Vincent’s Hospital NYC
• CMC: St. Vincent’s Richmond Hospital
• Good Samaritan Hospital, Suffern, NY
• Interfaith Medical Center
• Kings County Medical Center
• Lutheran Medical Center
• New York Methodist Hospital

• New York Presbyterian Medical Center
• St. Anthony’s Health Professions & Nursing Institute
• St. John’s Episcopal Hospital
• St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital
• St. Mary’s Hospital
• Staten Island University Hospital
• SUNY: Downstate Medical Center
• The New York Hospital Center of Queens
• University Physicians Network at New York University Medical Center
• Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center