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...

Influenza Watch 2018: Is an Epidemic Upon Us?

If you’re thinking it seems that the flu has reared its ugly head a bit early this year, you’re right. As if that wasn’t...

19 Ideas For Shift Nurses To Get More Sleep

When you don’t get enough of it, you suffer. Big time. No, we’re not talking about money, we’re talking about sleep.  And if you’re among...

Rediscover the Joy of Being a Nurse

  We all know that being a nurse is not an easy job. From compassion fatigue to the pressures of staffing and policy, being a...

Depression & Nurses: A Closer Look At A Common Problem No One Wants To Talk About

Whether in a hospital or at a doctor’s appointment, nurses greet patients with a comforting warmth and kindness. Despite this, nurses are at risk...

The Dangers Of Sleep Deprivation – And What It Means For Nurses

Sleep deprivation is a real problem in America. Americans are getting less sleep than ever – approximately 6.8 hours on average, according to bettersleep.org. This...

A Nurse’s 5 Tips To “Never” Get Sick

I hesitate to say I never get sick because whenever you say never, it’s the equivalent to shouting out, “Here I am infectious world! Come...