The “Take Five” Yoga Break for Nurse Wellness on the Go
As nurses, we are constantly on the go, both in our professional as well as personal lives. We are on the go so much that we often do not take time out for our wellness and health. At a recent…
Category Health & Wellness
Rejuvenation Collaboration: Why Nurses Need to Manage Health and Wellness Now
As nurses, our most valuable and prized possession is our health. There is so much information out there on nurses’ health, wellness, and well-being and for many years, we have been interested in healthy living and getting your body back into its…
5 Ways to Supercharge Your Health and Be a New Nurse for the New Year
Are you planning to make a New Year’s resolution to be a “new nurse” this upcoming year? You’re not alone. According to the American Psychological Association, lifestyle changes such as weight loss, quitting smoking, and increasing exercise are the top 3…
6 Easy Time Management Tools for Nursing Wellness
Apart from being a nurse and health coach, I also have part-time jobs managing my own company, contributing to nurse and coaching associations and studying to advance my education. These are the things that test my nursing time management skills. I…
Nursing Wellness Starts with Finding “Me” Time
You’re a respected nurse working 12-hour shifts, raising a wonderful family, successfully maintaining your household, and creatively financing.Sound about right?But, something is missing… your “me” time! What about nursing wellness? Your emotional and physical health? How many nurses turn to unhealthy…
Nurses’ Wheel of Life: Creating Balance and Wellness
One of my favourite tools to create balance and wellness while nursing is the ‘Wheel of Life’. You may have seen this before in articles or books. I think its simplicity is its strong point, and I have used one every 12 weeks for the…
Nurses Health: How Do I Stay Asleep?
Some nurses may find themselves able to fall asleep only to wake up a couple of hours later. Waking up in the middle of sleep is called sleep maintenance insomnia and differs from sleep onset insomnia, which is the struggle to…
Nurses, Are You Taking Care of Your Health?
Have you ever found that the simplest advice is often the best advice? If only we could heed the nursery rhyme above, we would be so much better off! While we are all responsible for our own health and wellbeing,…
Nurses are Human Too! Promoting Health Outside the Workplace
Being a nurse, I often feel like the “scope of health” is focused on me when I’m outside of the workplace. I’m afraid I’ll be spotted by a patient as I take my children through the fast food drive-thru, the one…
12 Ways Nurses Can Take Control of Their Happiness
Nursing is a profession where you do not get to choose what kind of shift you are going to have. Very often, your choices are the result of someone else’s decision. This impacts nurse wellness. But you do have control…