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Originally published July 26, 2022 and updated November 8, 2025 by Dr. Brigitte Sager, DNP, IFMCP — Founder & CEO of the Institute for Functional Nursing (IFN). When I first wrote about the partnership between functional medicine and nurse coaching, I was exploring how these two disciplines could come together to create more meaningful patient care. At the time, I was teaching a short course in functional medicine for nursing, and I was helping nurses begin to integrate root