Focus on health.

As we launch August’s Focus on Health, take a moment to recall what our goal has been for this year. In January, a call was sent: an open invitation issued to engage monthly in a holistic nursing assessment of your own personal wellness. Wellness topics have been explored from several perspectives, offering options for you to contemplate, to research, to explore potential benefits or fallacies, and to present challenges to your current thinking. This author does not intend these pieces to be the ‘final word’ on any topic. The key is that you, the reader, get involved in the activity or topic visited by thinking about it yourself. Evaluate each idea presented and determine what feels like a possibility for you. Expert discussions call for opposing viewpoints and indeed welcome them – honest inquiry recognizes that there is not ‘one truth’ but many viewpoints in obtaining wisdom. Critical thinking is required. This concept, central to all professional nursing practice, will be explored next month as it relates to life-long learning. Now, let us move on and talk about motion as it relates to our physical health!