Letter Dressing for work, addressing weight loss and making salads you can dress up and down.

Vital Signs News for nurses on life, style and work.

Finds
Clap Your Hands Applause for the best products to keep your mitts fit.

Scrubs Chic
Color Me Stylish Scrubs in solids aren't what they used to be!

All About You
Making a Difference Meet five RNs whose good deeds have gone way beyond the call of duty to reverberate far and wide. By Mary Duffy

Well-Being
10 Reasons You Can't Lose Weight (and what you can do about it). By Liz Neporent

First Person
Talking Points One nurse ponders the difficulties of staying within the bounds of social acceptability without suffering social isolation.
By Theresa Brown, RN

Relax
Breathing Lessons By practicing mindfulness, you can improve your life at home and at work.
By Jerome Stone, RN

Eating Well
A Fresh Spin on Salads Forget those sorry-looking greens in the hospital cafeteria and toss up summer's new crop of fixins. By Jeanne Kelley

Expressions
Passages An artist finds economic security
-and another outlet for his creative nature
-in the world of nursing.

On the Cover
Jennifer Buchanan, an RN at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, in Cherokee Workwear Core Stretch. Read about her and her blog, the first of its kind at a pediatric hospital, on page 14.
Photography by Lionel Cassini.