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Cardiovascular nurses encourage use of updated guidelines for management of blood cholesterol and physical activity

May 1, 2019

The Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association believes that all nurses should integrate the recently updated 2018 American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA)/multi-society cholesterol guideline and the U.S.…

Faculty role in promoting nursing student health

July 27, 2017

How can you help future nurses build a healthy foundation? Key Takeaways – Faculty can model healthy behaviors to promote student nurse health. – Focus health and wellness…

Fragmented physical activity and mortality risk

October 11, 2019

A new study published in JAMA Network Open reveals new insights into mortality risk in older adult patients. (more…)

Keep kids moving

July 28, 2016

One-third of American children are overweight or obese. Although many factors contribute to this epidemic, one cause for the rise in childhood obesity is a decrease in physical…

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Recover energy, find balance, and reduce stress

September 20, 2017

By Chris Jordan, MS, CSCS, NSCA-CPT, ACSM EP-C/APT An axiom of the healthcare world is that the better care health providers give to themselves, the better care they…

What’s best for you? Lifelong healthy choices

December 11, 2018

Take a moment to unwrap the gift of self-care. AN EMERGENCY RESPONDER once commented that for some of the people they assist, it’s apparent that a series of…