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Alzheimer’s Awareness Month: Keeping Your Family Healthy
November is known as Alzheimer’s Awareness Month. While you’re probably already familiar with the signs and symptoms of this disease, you may not know how to prevent it. The...
Best Practices
Recognizing & Coping With Nursing Burnout
Nurses are often compassionate by nature. After all, one of the reasons you may have chosen nursing is...
Health and Fitness
Wearable Devices: Useful Medical Insights Or Just More Data?
Do you track your steps with a FitBit or monitor your heart rate with an Apple Watch?
Wearable devices...
Health and Fitness
Should You Take Dietary Supplements?
When you reach for that bottle of vitamin C or fish oil pills, you might wonder how well...
Health and Fitness
Food For Thought: How The Brain Reacts To Food
The reason why some people find it so hard to resist finishing an entire bag of chips or...
Thankful Yesterday, Thankful Today, Thankful Tomorrow
Nurses are never well rested or stress-free, and their work is never quite done. But if there’s one thing a nurse is each and...
Nurse Bling: 13 Heavenly Finds For Your Hands and Feet
Frequent hand washing, 12-hour shifts…a nurse’s hands and feet are put through a lot, and yet they’re so important to remaining comfortable on the job.
With...
Drug Dependency In The Nursing Field
Fans of the show Nurse Jackie are familiar with the concept of drug addiction among nurses, but they might not realize that this is...
Natural Dry Skin Solutions That Every Nurse Will Love
It is no secret that the cold outside air, brisk winds, and artificial indoor heat all contribute to skin problems. This can be particularly...
Is Quitting Smoking On Your Calendar For 2016?
It’s no secret – nursing can be stressful. Whether you’re dealing with a patient about to code or two new admits at the same...
Breast Cancer Risks For Nurses
A new breast cancer study led by nurse Karen E. Greco, RN, PhD, ANP-BC, titled “Mammography Decision Making in Older Women With a Breast Cancer Family...