Nursing Review begins 2012 with a new look print edition with a focus on kick- starting a healthy year. Our focus section includes research, comment and advice on helping nurses take care of their own health and not just others.
After a decade or more of writing on nursing, I’m well aware that nurses have a culture of putting others first, and that was particularly clear in my hometown of Christchurch last year.
Personally, I started 2012 with good intentions of being healthier, including yoga. After following my displaced yoga school around various church and community halls last year, it now has a ‘permanent temporary’ home at a dance studio. You have the choice of setting up your yoga mat against an internal wall, which ‘bounces’ unnervingly quake-like with every gyration of the next-door salsa class, or against an outer wall, knowing full well it is braced on the other side by large concrete-ballasted props. So it’s less soothing than stimulating but very much a welcome stretch after spending too much time hunched over a computer screen.
I hope readers enjoy our new look Nursing Review and also find ways of having a healthy start to 2012. We welcome feedback and ideas for articles for future editions with upcoming focuses including nursing innovation, chronic disease management, and infection control/wound care.
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NEW: RRR, Nursing Review’s professional development activity
The healthy kick-start theme continues with our new professional development activity – RRR (Reading, Reflection and application in Reality).
This edition explores the notion of work life balance and what it really means. The peer-reviewed RRR articles and structured learning activity will be a regular feature from here-on-in creating an opportunity for nurse readers to meet their continuing competence requirements.
PRIZE: We are keen to get your feedback on RRR and will be offering a free subscription to the nurse who supplies the best online tip on work-life balance or comment on what work-life balance means to them. Go to www.nursingreview.co.nz
