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The Healthy Nurse, Healthy New Jersey Team is walking in two walks this year. Please join us! Any New Jersey nurse who participates in either walk will get a Healthy Nurse, Healthy New Jersey [...]

The New Jersey Department of Human Services, Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services, is holding its first annual Opioid Summit on Friday, Sept. 20 at the Atlantic City Convention Center [...]

Are you experiencing a nursing shortage at your organization? Are you flush with job candidates or is it a struggle to fill open nursing positions? Are new graduates beating down the door while [...]

Inadequate hydration was a concern that jumped out at me when I started using a fitness tracker five years ago. I was surprised to learn I wasn’t consuming sufficient amounts of water! It only [...]

Rae, as I will call her, came into my life before I was an oncology nurse navigator and after she had already been on her health journey for most of her life. Rae’s journey began when she was 3 [...]

Mariska Roussell remembers reaching her breaking point after working 10 straight 12-hour shifts as a nurse. She cried in her car after finishing her 10th straight shift at Byrd Regional Hospital [...]

As a child growing up in Marshalltown, Iowa, Patricia Thompson didn’t imagine she would devote more than 30 years of her career to working as a nurse. Now, she can’t imagine her life any other [...]

With only six months on the job as a registered nurse, Angela Simpson got hit hard on the top of her head by an agitated dementia patient. His IV had stopped which hurt him, and she was trying to [...]

Hot summer months combined with long busy shifts can result in dehydration. Dehydration could lead to feeling sluggish, decreased concentration, headache, constipation and dizziness. Health [...]

Hospitals smell like home to Ren Capucao. “People find it weird,” he said with a laugh. “For me, visiting the hospital was a fun thing.” Growing up in Virginia Beach, [...]