top of page

Built by nurses who've been there.

NextShift Nursing grew out of a simple truth:
Nurses need career coaches who have actually worn the scrubs, worked the floor, navigated the politics, and made the hard calls.

We're a family  (literally), and we bring that warmth, honesty, and candor to every coaching relationship.

Four nurses. One mission. For Nurses.

Professional Headshot (1).png
Bryanna Baptiste
DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC

Founder & House Supervisor (CEO)

Attachment-1.png
Jenn Rocha, MSN, RNC-OB 

Chief Nurse Educator

Professional Headshot (2).jpg
Gretchen Gundburg, BSN, RN

Charge Nurse (COO)

Professional Headshot.png
Emma Gairing, BSN, RN

Nurse Liaison (CCO)

Teamwork Group Huddle

Our Philosophy

Here's what we already know about you.

You didn't get into nursing for the twelves, the charting, or a pizza party. You got in because something in you said: this is what I'm supposed to do.

That part of you hasn't gone anywhere. It's just gotten hard to hear under the short staffing, the impossible expectations, and a system that asks for everything and hands back a free water bottle.

We've been there. All four of us.

NextShift started with one observation that made us mad enough to build something: nurses are the most trusted professionals in any room they walk into, and usually the last ones anyone thinks to support.

Coaching exists for executives, athletes, and entrepreneurs. For the nurse who's burned out, eyeing a transition, or quietly building toward something bigger? Almost nothing. And definitely nothing that understands the culture: the politics of a schedule, the grief you're never given time for, why "just set boundaries" lands like a joke on a unit running short.

So we built it.

 

This isn't corporate wellness with a nursing filter — it's nurses building the infrastructure that should've existed all along.

No generic framework with your name mail-merged on top. You get a coach who sits with you like a colleague (because we are), hears your goals and your non-negotiables, and helps you build a path that's actually yours. Assessed, planned, charted- because that's how nurses handle anything that matters.

Reflect. Transition. Lead. Launch something entirely new. There's a seat for you here.

This is what it looks like when  nurses take care of each other.

bottom of page