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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...
The Twelve Tips for A Healthy Holiday Season
The holiday season is supposed to be joyous, fun and happy. But it can also be stressful. For many working in the healthcare field, the...
5 Things You’re Doing Wrong When Working Out
Let’s face it…everyone has made the mistake of working out incorrectly and later paid for it with injuries and embarrassment. And as a busy...
9 Not-So-Harmless Habits That Might Be Disrupting Your Sleep
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Few appreciate a true, good night’s rest more than a nurse. A rare but mighty thing, sleep is pretty much always a main goal—second only,...
Pregnancy and Low Back Pain
Pregnancy changes a woman's body in different ways, including the muscles, ligaments, bones, and joints that make up the musculoskeletal system. According to a...
Are You Thankful to Be Healthy or Is It Healthy to Be Thankful?
As Thanksgiving swiftly approaches, one might think this an odd subject for a health care provider. But, before we gourge ourselves with a wonderful...
Top 5 Ways Nurses Can Keep the Holiday Pounds From Creeping On!
Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could eat what you wanted, skip the gym and still look terrific? Sigh. We all can dream, right?!
Unfortunately,...