Weight gain doesn’t have to be a given for nurses, though it sometimes seems that way. There are so many challenges to eating healthy: working 12-hour shifts (especially nights); eating at oddball hours; not always getting a lunch break; often […]
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There’s been some recent research that suggests nurses are more likely to be overweight as compared to the general population. Maybe you struggle with maintaining a healthy weight yourself. If so, that’s bad news for you personally, and for your
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It’s no secret: It’s much easier to reach health goals when friends, family, and co-workers have favorable attitudes toward exercise, sensible eating, etc. Many research studies seem to prove the social contagion theory, which posits that folks in our social
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New research suggests that reading fine novels heightens social sensitivity the capacity to understand the beliefs and desires of other people, and how they differ from your own, that’s the bedrock of nursing. A paper titled “Reading Literary Fiction Improves
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On Martin Luther King Jr. Day we naturally remember Dr. King’s I have a Dream speech, delivered in 1963 at the March on Washington, where he called for an end to racism. That stirring address is ranked by scholars as
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How are you doing on those New Year’s resolutions? Â Are you persisting and persevering? Do you even remember your promise toÂ… Â Â Drop those extra 10 pounds pronto! Â Â Firm up or fill out in all the right places. Â Â
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A spate of disasters this past decade, including Hurricane Katrina and the Boston Marathon bombing, have shown us as a nation just how vulnerable our health care facilities can be. We’re not as naïve as we were in the pre-September
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One of the best things you can do at the end of the year is to review it. That’s right, flip through your pocket calendar or your digital schedule of the last 365 days and see what worked and what
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This is the time of year we wish for peace on earth and good will to men. Sometimes, though, we lose sight of the spirit of the season. It’s easy to get swept up by the humbuggery and consumerism that
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The end of the year is a rushed and hurried time for most of us, no matter what holiday we celebrate. Are you marking Winter Solstice (Dec. 21), Christmas (Dec. 25), Kwanzaa (Dec. 26 to Jan. 1), or New YearsÂ’
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