Health and Fitness

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...

Recognizing & Coping With Nursing Burnout

Nurses are often compassionate by nature. After all, one of the reasons you may have chosen nursing is...

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...

Should You Take Dietary Supplements?

When you reach for that bottle of vitamin C or fish oil pills, you might wonder how well...

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...

Top 10 Sleep Tips For Nurses

It’s a simple prescription really: You get up, go about your day or shift, go home, wind down and then go to sleep; repeat...

10 Steps To Achieving Work-Life Balance

1. Take time to assess your values and priorities periodically. Some people do this each year on New Year’s Day, or on their birthdays....

Are You a Hydrated Nurse?

Nothing is as important as being well hydrated – and you probably know this better than anyone around. If you have stressed the importance...

10 Steps To Achieve Work-Life Balance

The American Medical News recently published findings on what accounts for work-life balance and a handy ten step checklist to achieving overall life satisfaction: 1. Take...

Put Your Own Mask On First

I never gave much thought to the pre-flight instructions until I became a nurse. More specifically, I never thought much of those infamously boring and...

Nurses And Healthy Relationships

It starts in nursing school and rolls over into our daily career work. Being a nurse is tough, it’s demanding and exhausting. We give...