Hello, I’m Pam.

Thank you for taking some time to connect with me and learn more about Replenish.

I am a former cardiac surgical ICU nurse who now continues to resuscitate hearts and health in a different way.

My time in high reliability environments, managing critically ill patients and working in organ procurement ended in “burnout”. I finished my CCRN and CPTC certifications and realized that not only did I not feel a sense of accomplishment, I felt numb and no longer connected to the work. The sense of meaning and purpose that fueled my early career challenges, was depleted and the symptoms of exhaustion led me away from the bedside.

My spouse (a transplant surgeon) and many other medical friends were experiencing similar struggles. The wellness lectures were prescriptive and focusing on work-life balance which did not resonate with our reality or job responsibilities. So, I set out on a mission to learn how to preserve our health and our hearts, in a way that made sense with our vision of well-being and unpredictable schedules.

I explored evidence-based modalities and some not so evidence-based to build resilience until I realized that “burnout” was more than a lack of personal resilience. My highly sensitive and empathic nature, common traits in our profession, had taken their toll and become my greatest health risk. The adverse symptoms of moral and empathic distress and secondary victim syndrome were not recognized or managed (supported) early enough.

I came back to nursing years later with a desire to develop relevant care plans for clinician health, well-being and career longevity that addressed the personal and systemic risk factors associated with caregiving.

Replenish was founded to support caregivers to restore their own health and capacity to give quality and compassionate care. Through a critical care and coaching lens, it is a framework that combines science with sensitivity to detect and mitigate the inevitable mental, emotional, and physical symptoms of distress that are part of being human.

I foster an integrative approach to health and well-being utilizing an evidence-based coaching model. I will guide you to identify what matters most and find appropriate pathways to resuscitate the parts of yourself that need care. Together we manage the fluid states of well-being with frequent assessments, continuous monitoring, and individualized restorative support plans.

I’ve created brief infusions of care called micro-restorative practices to serve as “invitations to restore.” They follow the Duke Integrative Wheel of Health to address all areas that may impact your current state. These practices aim to help you find coherence and personalize your support systems.

Together with my nursing colleague, Cathy Alvarez, I created the curriculum for Replenish at Work™. This program is a rapid response approach to caregiver well-being designed to promote “Self-care for Quality Care” with integrated NEED assessments and restorative cycles of care to support a healthy work environment.

We can’t always maintain a state of homeostasis or predict labile symptoms of distress, but we can engage in micro-doses of maintenance care to restore our resources and harness the power of early detection and intervention.

Let us support you on the path.