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THE NURSE’S GUIDE TO GOOD LIVING WINTER 2011 $2.95 scrubscrubsmag.coms RNs Dish on Sex, Love and Work Where Is God When Tragedy Strikes? Top 10 Reasons Nurses Get Fat How to Say No to Overload Rx for Everyday Beauty Dilemmas 7 37314 16201 7 ON THE COVER Ricki Noel Lander ® ® in Dickies Keyhole Mock scrubs [winter 2011] FREE SAMPLES of Schiff MegaRed to give to your patients. Wrap Top in Candy Orchid. Call 1-800-934-3379 (8-5 MST M-F) or visit ProSamples.SchiffMegaRed.com to request your samples today! Photography by Lionel Cassini. 2 Letter Meet some of our contributors. 5 Vital Signs News for nurses on life, style and work. 8 Finds Fun and Games Our editors went on a shopping spree just for you. 11 Scrubs Chic Clothes with a Conscience Dress to express your sense of style as well as your sensibilities. 12 All About You• Nursing a Marriage Three RNs examine their love lives, revealing lessons learned, lines drawn, even how to have great sex. Nurse or Wife? By Theresa Brown Married to the Doctor By Patricia Harman Sex and the ICU By Tilda Shalof 34 No wonder nurses 40 Hmmm, so many 20 Easy Does It get fat! Understanding decisions to make. all the reasons is more Like, after a long Quiet, Please! Tune out chaos and key into calm with nurse- than half the battle. shift...bed or gym? tested strategies for finding peace of mind and body. By Daryn Eller ACTUAL SIZE SOFTGEL SHOWN c ntents24 On Duty • Are You on Overload? No need to let work overtake your life. A few simple steps are all it takes to ensure that doing what you love still means loving what you do. 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By Lesley Alderman † Supportive, but not conclusive research shows that consumption of EPA and DHA Omega-3 husband, Arthur 48 Kosowsky, after he Expressions fatty acids may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease. injured himself and The Healing Power of Painting An RN helps patients—and herself— she wondered: Am I find fulfillment through art. © 2010 Schiff Nutrition Group, Inc. 591-D1 his nurse or his wife? CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: TIA MAGALLON; GETTY IMAGES; DAN PAGE; HARRY ZERNIKE HARRY PAGE; DAN GETTY IMAGES; MAGALLON; TIA LEFT: TOP FROM CLOCKWISE •cover story [letter] MEET SOME OF OUR CONTRIBUTORS EVERYONE ON THE SCRUBS TEAM agrees that the greatest pleasure of working on this F eminine. magazine has been our interaction with so many nurses. Over and over again, we have EDITOR-IN-CHIEF been inspired by your dedication, courage and compassion. So now, in the spirit of Catherine Ettlinger strengthening our connection, I’d like to introduce you to a few of the many talented CREATIVE DIRECTOR Maxine Davidowitz F un. people who have contributed to this issue. EXECUTIVE EDITOR Renee Schettler DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY As she wrote “Quiet, Please!” on page 20, Daryn Eller both reported and reflected on Lila Garnett COPY EDITOR F earless. the many different ways people tend to spend their downtime. “I could relate most to Melissa Brandzel the nurses who find relaxation in movement,” says Eller, a health and lifestyle writer RESEARCH EDITOR Tajinder Rehal whose work has appeared in More, Parents and Health. CONTRIBUTORS Theresa Brown, RN; Daryn Eller “For me, it’s swimming, doing yoga or simply taking a Scrubs, WEB SENIOR EDITOR walk.” A contributing editor to Eller says, “Every- Miriam Bookey one I know has a story about how a nurse helped him or WEB EDITOR Paris Lia her. For my husband and me, it was when we adopted our USER EXPERIENCE EDITOR daughter. We had no warning—we just got a call that a Halie Rosenberg WEB ASSOCIATE EDITORS mother was about to give birth—so we went to the hospital Jennifer Fink, RN Marijke Vroomen-Durning, RN totally unprepared. 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Zernike shoots for The Wall Lauren Coniglio PUBLIC RELATIONS Street Journal as well as his own magazine, 9W, a journal Dayna Macy 510-219-0819 of cycling photography and stories named for route 9W, [email protected] the well-known cyclist’s escape route from New York City. MIND OVER MEDIA, LLC 702 16th Street Santa Monica, CA 90402 Vivienne Flesher, the immensely gifted illustrator whose www.mindovermedia.net PARTNERS clients include The New York Times and Random House, Susan Gates Amy Rappeport created the artwork for “Keeping My Faith” on page 30. 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Printed in the USA. All correspondence should be directed to Mind Over Media, LLC, 702 16th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90402. Copies of the magazine are available for $2.95 per copy plus shipping/handling, or in boxes of 75 copies for $1 per copy Catherine Ettlinger plus shipping/handling, at scrubsmagazine.com/magazine. Editor-in-Chief BPA Worldwide Consumer Magazine Membership applied for April 2010. babyphatscrubs.com 2 scrubsmag.com•WINTER 2011 FREE SAMPLES www.MoveFreeSample.com to request your samples today! of Call 1-800-439-8040Move (8-5 Free MST M-F) or visit to give to your patients. vitalsigns NEWS FOR NURSES ON LIFE, STYLE AND WORK ® Advanced Strike a Pose: Yoga for Nurses YOU’VE HEARD IT BEFORE: Yoga offers benefits for everyone. But the physical postures and breathing exercises are especially good for nurses. Although yoga is often presented as acrobatic, there are several dif- ferent styles, many of them quite gentle. “Yoga is suitable for everybody, but you have to find out which style suits you,” says Ingrid Kollak. She knows this well. The RN, PhD, researcher and professor in the health and nursing management programs at Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany, slipped a disk at age 40. In excruciating pain, she resolved to take control of her body. “Yoga became a part of my daily life,” says Kollak. “Get up, do yoga, have breakfast.” Realizing that yoga helps to relieve both mental stress and muscle pain resulting from long hours on the job, Kollak went on to research how yoga could help her coworkers, and eventually wrote Yoga for Nurses. The book illustrates simple yoga poses that can be done on an as-needed basis at work or at home— no revealing outfits required! For instance, you might do a simple forward bend with your hands against a desk to stretch your spine, practice deep breathing when faced with an emergency or rely on a quick twist in the break room to boost your mood and your energy.