Nurse Program Coordinator
Louise Goldstein, RN, CNIV, OCN, CHPN, is a registered nurse who has been in the Nursing Department at Duke University Health System for 15 years in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. Her professional practice has always been focused on integrative holistic health, patient advocacy, and patient education.
Goldstein believes the essence of nursing practice is based on integrative health care, the fundamental principal being holistic health -- bringing together the art of caring with biomedical technology for the purpose of healing the mind, body, and spirit. She explains, "As nurses, we are on the front lines of patient care. I value the philosophy that nurses are not only privileged but also obligated to create a comfortable collaboration between traditional Western health care and complementary therapies."
As a member of the opening team of the first freestanding acute care inpatient hospice facility in the Triangle, Goldstein provided comfort care and helped to "normalize" the dying process and the grieving process for her patients and their families for five and a half years. She maintains specialty certifications in Oncology Nursing and Hospice and Palliative Nursing and continues to co-facilitate bereavement support groups for Duke Community Bereavement Services at the Unicorn Bereavement Center in Hillsborough, NC.
