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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...
5 Ways To Keep Your Skin Healthy And Vibrant
If there were such a thing as a magic potion that would help us get healthy, glowing, incredible skin, we’d be the first in line...
The Upside Of Worrying
Worry - it does a body good. And, the mind as well. A new paper by Kate Sweeny, psychology professor at the University of...
The Irony Of The Nurse Who Smokes
It’s crazy, huh. Nurses are at the front line of tobacco treatment and prevention, yet they’re the most likely of all healthcare providers to...
Nurse-y Uses For Everyday Things That’ll Make Your Skin Glow!
Those back-to-back shifts have taken a toll on your body, mind and, most of all, face. Remember the good ol’ days when you actually...
How To Get A Good Sleep After Working A Long 12 Hour Night Shift
Nurses are at a higher risk for an ailment referred to as shift work disorder. This disruption in sleeping patterns can make it increasingly...
Skip The Soda, Opt For The Stairs To Feel More Energized
We've all done it -that moment during a shift where you are seriously lagging and all you can think of is caffeine, caffeine, caffeine!!!...