Health and Fitness
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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...
Do Occupational Factors Affect Reproductive Health And Chronic Disease Risk For Nurses?
A prospective study of more than 20,000 nurses aged 20-45 years, 88% of whom had worked night shifts, reported their most common health issues,...
Biosensors & Your Health: What’s Your Body Trying to Tell You?
Your body alerts you to many aspects of your health. Your stomach growling tells you when to eat. A powerful yawn lets you know...
3 Ways For Nurses To Take Care Of Themselves On (And Off!) The Job
We are nurses—we care for people and we care about people. But for some reason, our own health often isn’t a priority. Whether I’m...
The Dark Side Of The Shift
I’ve always envied those who can flip flop back and forth between day shift and night shift. How do they do it?
I think I’ve...
Breaking The Mental Health Taboo In The Nursing Industry
It’s estimated by the World Health Organization (WHO) that one in four people will suffer from a severe mental health problem at some point...
10 Tips To Fill Your Tummy, Not Your Scrubs!
Oh boy…it’s 3am and you have the urge to snack. Working shifts, particularly evenings and nights, can be tough, and eating a healthy, regular...