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What follows is a guest post from Dena White, a fellow advocate of health and wellbeing who promotes nurses and the medical profession in the health sector.

Twitter is a simple, unique and easy-to-use tool that has everyone wondering why no one has come up with it until now. It may seem a bit ridiculous to some, those who are wondering why anyone would want to use such a tool. However, it is ideal for communicating with people through brief messages, getting feedback on specific topics, updating others on what is going on in your world and best of all, finding out what is on the mind of today’s nurses.

Wanted: Twittering Nurses

Several organizations are reaching out to nurses through Twitter. The site is used to encourage nurses to contribute ideas and converse casually. It is a fun and inventive way to stay on top of the nursing community.

Nursing students can use Twitter to interact with experienced nursing professionals. Seasoned nurses can use the site as a great way to stay in touch with one another and share you daily thoughts with others.

The problem is that nurses are just now discovering the world of Twitter. Therefore, to help spread nursing throughout Twitter, we searched for and found the ten best nurses to follow. Keep in mind that this list may not be all specifically nurses, but also people in related professions such as EMTs and nursing students.

Top 10 Nurses To Follow On Twitter

Nursedotcom – Misty Turner is the director of Nurse.com. She also enjoys politics, social media and networking.

Vickie_Milazzo – Vickie L. Milazzo of Houston, Texas, is known as the pioneer of legal nurse consulting, as well as a best-selling author. She has been training legal nurse consultants for more than 25 years.

RNpathways – Nurse RN is devoted to helping all nurses, and best of all is employee-owned.

pcRN – A legal nurse consultant from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

ChristianNurse – A great site out of London, England that provides news and more related to nursing and other healthcare topics.

MyNursing – Steven The Nurse from Miami, Florida, brings us MyNursing.org, “Where a nurse can be a nurse.”

Bob_the_nurse – A psychiatric nurse who is presently employed by a mental health drug team.

WorkingNurse – A great place to find job postings and interesting articles for nurses.

NurseAusmed – A practicing RN from New Zealand who is also an avid blogger.

minoritynurse – Minority Nurse Magazine is a great resource for career, education and the nursing community.

Twitter is a great place to find amazing nurses who are obsessed with online gaming, having fun with their families, passionate about their jobs, and “tweet” about their lives or keep up blogs about the things that they do and the patients that they love. The nurses and nurse-like professionals listed above all have hundreds of followers and are from all different fields of nursing.

You will find professionals from all different nursing specialties on Twitter, everything from ultrasound techs to travel nurses. The links listed above are in no particular order; no one nurse is favored over another. In fact, I recommend that you follow them all to help you stay on top of the nursing community.

Dena White is a freelance author and writes about healthcare career topics, such as how to obtain a nursing degree, tips for job advancement, and more.

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In this post, I’m going to look at some of the true benefits of not just living a healthy lifestyle, but being sensible about how to treat yourself in the kind of things that you load up your body with, or choose to avoid in order to gain a better level of overall health and fitness.

Healthy living and a healthy lifestyle are not entirely dependent on your following this or that fitness regime, or healthy exercise schedule. In fact when you really think about it on a common sense level, a healthy lifestyle needs to also come from the inside out.

By this, I mean you need to be very aware of what passes through your lips on the way to your stomach. Food and drink dictate the final outcome of your healthy state, so the saying “you are what you eat” is so very true. That also goes for what you drink, so a little caution and sensible thought put into your food and drink can work wonders with your overall state of health without you making any great changes or sacrifices.

It’s no good exercising down the gym like a lunatic and sweating buckets in order to shed a few pounds if you are simply going to stop off at the local pizza takeaway on the way home and load up with junk food. Similarly its no good to you to stop by your favourite bar and throw a few beers down your throat as reward for your particularly tough workout!

You need to take a whole person approach to health and that means exercising some moderation in all things, including exercise and diet. You can have a cold beer every so often just as you can treat yourself to the occasional pizza if that’s what you like. You have to treat these things as special treats that you award yourself for being good to yourself for several days at a time. That way you don’t restrict yourself to an unreasonable diet regime that you are far less likely to stick to because you hate it!

Be being sensible what you eat and drink, you’ll find that your body will reward you much better for feeding and watering it the right way!

There’s more info in an older post here that continues this mode of thinking and being here at Weight Loss Steps to Health. That post defines some of the better steps you can take to maintain a healthy weight while promoting good health as well.

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Ok, that’s enough exercise for those couch potatoes! In this post we’ll move back to the healthy lifestyle side of things to get the ball rolling for some more healthy practices.

Here I want to talk about the power of the mind in your daily health routine. A lot of people still vastly underestimate their great store of power that is contained in their very own thoughts on the state of their health. Scientific studies have proved that the mind can not only heal the body in many cases every bit as well as a prescribed medicine, but it can also be responsible for the state of a person’s health as well.

When you’re in a negative, depressed and unhappy state, you are actually thinking yourself ill. You are more susceptible to colds, flu and any other nasty bugs that are flying around when you are run down.

On the flip side, when you are happy, upbeat and positive, you are much less likely to come down with a nasty cold or attract any other disease into your life. That’s because when you are in a happy, positive mode of thinking your own body’s immune system is working at it’s peak of efficiency to repel any virus of bacterial infection that might try to invade your body.

Conversely, when you’re down, depressed and unhappy, your immune system is struggling and will not be as effective at keeping out the continual barrage of airborne and contact germs and diseases that are just waiting for the crack in your body’s armour to infiltrate, occupy and multiply into a full blown disease.

So if you want to stay healthy, young looking and free of disease – be happy!

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The previous post on healthy exercises for couch potatoes continued this theme and right here, we’ll go even deeper with more of the same. So here, for all you couch potatoes is a further little gem that will continue this mini series with another great easy to do exercise that you can do at work and at your desk.

There’s nothing like appearing to be doing nothing when you are actually doing something, especially when its helping to improve your health in some way. So in this one of my exercises for couch potatoes, once again you are sitting idly at your desk – or so you appear to anyone who may cast a casual glance in your direction.

This is similar to the first of the exercises for couch potatoes I showed you only this time, as you are sitting up straight, place your hands palms down on the desk straight in front of you. Now with your forearms level, press down on the desk with as much pressure as is comfortable for you. Hold it for a few second, then release.

As before, repeat a few times until you start feeling that you’ve had enough – but you must be able to feel the muscles in your arms starting to get tired just a little first.

This great exercises for couch potatoes will tone up flabby upper arms and saggy “bingo wings” over time so its well worthwhile doing these simple exercises for couch potatoes as often as you are comfortable with.

As I mentioned in the last post, these exercises for couch potatoes are not meant to be a practical substitute for proper gym training and fitness. They are merely small ways to stave off complete motionless as is typical of a sedentary lifestyle. Instead, they can be slotted into your daily routine where you’d otherwise be dong nothing at all. They therefore become a small part of a healthy lifestyle they can help you to burn a few more calories during your day and tone up muscles as well.

It might not seem like much, but when it comes to promoting a health image to be proud of, every little helps!

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