Health tips

• Prioritise time for yourself

  Make time to ‘exist’ outside of work. Nurse unit manager Nel shares her ideas for carving out time to do the things you love.

• Seek help when you need it

  Everyone wins if nurses and midwives ask for help before we develop a chronic health issue. Find out how to make it the default at your work.

• Better sleep for shift workers

  Use these 18 guidelines to practice better sleep. Find out about what to aim for, routines, days off and more

• Sleep strategies for shift workers

  Researcher and author Alexandra Shriane shares tips for healthier sleep patterns with you that resulted from a recent study of shift workers.

• Wind down to sleep

  Are you overtired and wired? Find out what’s causing your insomnia and what can you try to reduce your stress, wind down and sleep better.

• Eat for health on night shift

  Using junk food to get through night shift? Why this is a poor choice, and 5 tips to eat well overnight.

• Trying too hard to sleep

  Experiencing disrupted sleep post-night shift? You’re not alone. Reduce your ‘sleep effort’, ask for support and try these tips for getting back to restful sleep.

• Change your habits to healthy

  Menopause, work, life - it can be hard to look after our own health. One nurse shares how she started with breakfast.

• Exercise shortcut to better strength

  Simple, deliberate exercises 4 times a day help build better strength than one big weekly gym session. No equipment needed. Find out how.

• Make meals easy

  It's hard to make good eating choices when you are tired or low energy. Follow these steps to plan and prepare meals that will save you money and keep you going.

• Change your eating habits

  Changing what and when you eat takes more than deciding to do so. How to set achievable goals and share them, get others involved and enjoy the benefits.

• Make healthy eating a team effort

  Change the way you eat by bringing your colleagues along with you. Support each other to choose better nutrition.

• Disrupt stress eating

  Did you know comfort food and stress eating can actually ‘drop’ our mood? Why certain food choices help us feel better and what to do when you just want to eat.

• Immerse yourself in joy

  Joy is more than a good feeling; it may be just the tonic to support your health. Build joy into your everyday and enjoy the mental, emotional, and physical benefits.

• Understand burnout in midwifery

  Researcher and midwife Robyn Matthews shares some strategies to help midwives identify if they are not coping and how they can ask for help at work to avoid burnout.

• Tips from you for 2024 – competition winners

  We asked you to tell us what you think are the best health tips for nurses, midwives and our students in 2024. Read the winning entries.

• Ask for clinical supervision

  Julie Sharrock shares her ideas for what workplaces, managers and nurses and midwives can do to encourage a culture of self-care, support, and clinical supervision.

• Recognising moral distress in midwives

  Guilt, frustration, injury. Midwife, clinical educator and researcher Wendy Foster helps you to understand moral distress in midwifery practice.