Want to know what tips and tricks your fellow nurses use to get and stay asleep? New to the night shift or facing a small bout of insomnia? There are lots of ideas in the Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation community! Get ideas and get to sleep!

Take Action to Prevent the Flu: Everything you need to know about the flu illness, including symptoms, treatment and prevention. (From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases [NCIRD]).

This quality improvement project set out to increase real-time collection and documentation of vital signs data by using interfaced mobile vital signs machines. Did it succeed?

The Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) hosted a briefing on the opioid crisis that is taking a toll on the health, wellness, and lives of Americans and their families.

National Healthcareer Association - Since 1989, NHA has been partnering with allied health education programs, organizations and employers across the nation to award more than 500,000 allied health certifications.

Tips to Keep You Healthy: Coughs and sneezes spread diseases—especially when it comes to common colds and flu! But getting sick is not inevitable; here's how you can reduce your risk of getting sick this winter.

The Center for School, College, and Career Resources (CSCCR) has launched a new campaign on the importance of vaccinations in college. You received all your vaccines as a young child, so you’re set for life, right? No so. They say students in dorm-like conditions are particularly at risk of contracting meningitis, hepatitis B, and the flu.

Global physician ethics pledge gets biggest makeover in decades - Physician leaders have given the international modern-day Hippocratic Oath the most substantial update that it has seen in nearly 70 years...

(From AMA Wire) A recent article in The Journal of Clinical Hypertension provides a framework to optimize accurate blood-pressure readings and boost patient adherence to treatment. The article outlines the “measure accurately, act rapidly and partner with patients” (M.A.P.) approach to hypertension management.

On a typical day, the first thing I do is touch base with night-shift and day-shift nursing staff members to see whether they have any concerns or questions, especially any concerns about the patients.