The Experience Behind the Mentorship.
Hi, I’m Regina Burrington - MSN, RN, NC-BC, and founder of Trew Coaching.
I spent 8 years at the bedside working across ICU/Step-Down, telemetry, travel nursing, and PACU. I've floated to more units than I can count, worked as agency and staff, and navigated every kind of team culture imaginable. I hold a Master's degree in Public Health Nursing and am a board-certified nurse coach.
Travel nursing taught me to adapt fast and trust my instincts in environments where nobody knew my name. ICU taught me what it means to stay calm when everything is moving at once. And all of it together taught me that clinical skill alone is never the whole story.
The nurses who thrive long-term aren't the ones who never struggle. They're the ones who have the tools, the support, and the self-awareness to work through the struggle without letting it break them.
That's what I teach.
It Didn’t Start With Confidence
Early in my nursing career I had a shift that stopped me in my tracks.
My patient was deteriorating. That feeling — the one that lives in your chest before your brain catches up — was telling me something was wrong. And I stayed quiet. Not because I didn't care. Because I was terrified of being wrong. Terrified of calling a doctor and sounding incompetent. Terrified that speaking up would confirm what the voice in my head had been saying all along — that I didn't belong there.
My charge nurse caught it. The patient was okay.
But I sat in my car for a long time that night. Not because I'd made a clinical error — but because I had let my own self-doubt become a patient safety issue.
That shift changed everything. Not because it made me perfect. Because it made me honest about what I actually needed.
Why Trew Coaching Exists.
The support I needed as a new nurse didn't exist the way it should have. I figured things out slowly — through mistakes, hard conversations, and years of reflection that could have been shortened significantly if someone had been in my corner from the start.
Trew Coaching exists because new nurses deserve better than sink or swim. Because the gap between nursing school and bedside reality is real and wide and nobody should have to navigate it alone. And because a confident nurse isn't just better for their career — they're better for every patient they touch.
My approach is supportive, direct, and practical. I don't do toxic positivity. I don't do textbook advice. I do honest conversations, real strategies, and genuine investment in the nurses I work with.
That's what no-BS mentorship looks like.
