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Healthy Weight Week - January 15-22, 2017 We explore what a healthy weight is, why we stray away from being a healthy weight, risks to being at an unhealthy weight, how to overcome the obstacles that keep us unhealthy as nurses, and tips to eating a healthy diet to get to those weight goals. Read More

Martin Luther King Day 2017 “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., stated to the Medical Committee for Human Rights in 1966. Read More

Better Health Care Elsewhere My personal & professional medical experiences on both the east and west coasts. Who does it better? Read More

Getting to Know You - Getting to Know All About You! Isn’t this the time, as you approach retirement, to really find out and put your best self forward for a stellar new life ahead? After all, this is your second chance at creating a life you love after being all things to all people for all those years. Now it is YOUR TIME to really GET TO KNOW the REAL YOU! Read More

Want happiness…apply the 10 second rule...on and off the nursing floor Everyone strives to find the secret to happiness. What most of us never completely realize is that each one of us holds that truth within. Read More

ED Triage Role I've been an RN for coming up 5 years now, the last 2 of them have been in ED. I love my job and this environment and my boss has told me today that in the next two months I am undertaking a triage course and will begin shifts in triage following that. Read More

Unhealthy habits/Facebook posts from friends/family that make you :( ? My aunt just posted a photo of heavily carb-laden Chinese food plates that she (diabetic) and her husband (also diabetic) are about to enjoy. She does this all the time. I have told her this is dangerous and she needs to be careful, but now I'm just biting my tongue and hoping she doesn't get a nasty ulcer. Read More