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Just a heads-up: The Nursing Beat will be on summer recess starting next week. Our last issue will go out on July 11 and we’ll be back in your inbox on August 4—rested, recharged, and ready to roll.
In the meantime, catch up on what you may have missed:
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Texas nurse documents moments Camp Mystic girls are evacuated from floodwater.
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Get to know our incredible editor, Ayla Roberts, in this behind-the-scenes interview.
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Texas university offers free tuition to help fight the nursing shortage.
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A quick-thinking nurse saves a newborn in a powerful on-the-job moment.
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Today's Top Beats |
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❤️ Above and Beyond
🛍️ Prime Day Wellness
💪 Your Workout Personality
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Nurses Bring the Celebration |
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Need a good pick-me-up video to restore your faith in people’s goodness? Watch this video of what nurses organized for 17-year-old Laura Wiley when she had to miss her graduation. The unfortunate timing of a kidney infection meant Wiley wouldn’t be able to walk across the stage with her classmates, but hospital staff organized a graduation gala and cheered as her name was called on a video feed. Her principal personally delivered her diploma later that day at the hospital. |
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Use Prime Day to be the Best You |
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There are just two days left of Amazon’s annual Prime Day extravaganza, but there are plenty of great deals on wellness products to pamper yourself and improve everyday life. Whether it’s massage guns and sunscreens or products perfect for nurses, check out some of these fitness and wellness deals you can snatch up before the biggest sale event of the year ends. |
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Match Your Personality to Your Workout |
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No matter how great you feel after a good workout, it’s often tough to motivate yourself to get to the gym. Science to the rescue! A new study finds that matching your personality to the right exercise not only affects how often you do the exercise but also how much benefit you get from it. The study compared people’s responses to a quiz on the Big 5 personality traits to how often they followed assigned exercise plans. Here’s what they found. |
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TOGETHER WITH JOHNSON & JOHNSON |
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Turn Your Best Ideas Into Funded Reality |
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You see opportunities for improvement every shift. That handoff process that could flow better. The scheduling approach that would actually work. The workflow that made sense years ago but desperately needs updating. What if your insights could become funded solutions?
NurseHack4Health™ connects nurse-led teams with resources to implement workplace improvements that create thriving environments. Over 5,700 nurses from 56 countries have already participated, receiving more than $1M to transform their ideas into reality, supported by the Johnson & Johnson Foundation.
Join the Information Session on July 23rd to discover exactly how it works. You'll learn why health systems participate and how interdisciplinary teams from the same workplace earn funding to bring solutions to life.
As part of this journey, the Innovation Academy teaches you how to present your ideas effectively while earning 2 CE credits, breaking everything down into manageable steps for busy nurses like you.
Your workplace insights have real value. Register now for the July 23rd session and discover how to transform your ideas into funded innovations.
The NurseHack4Health Pitch-A-Thon is presented by Johnson & Johnson, SONSIEL & Microsoft, and supported by the Johnson & Johnson Foundation. |
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TODAY'S TOP VITAL |
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The number of tick bites for every 100,000 ER visits last month in the Northeastern U.S. But here’s what people across the U.S. can do to avoid tick bites. |
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BREAK ROOM |
It Takes Two |
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Everyone has been raving about the latest release of the Wicked: For Good trailer. Watch this dynamic duo fight off the greatest infection here. |
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