Paulina Bleah, NP, PhD

NP @NORCCentre, Educator @humbercollege & @MichenerInst, bookish, passionate about research on #globalhealth #aging & #chronicillness, I love cooking shows

[Sherry @SchrodingrsBrat]

I think emotional education should be a real thing, I don’t mean soft skills, I mean things like how to sit with boredom, how to be happy alone, how to protect the heart from persuasion, how to discern intuition, how to ask for feedback, opinions, or advice, how to grieve, etc.

[JBI @JBIEBHC]

Capability in advanced practice nursing requires knowing how to learn, while also having the ability to creatively integrate prior skills & experience into new & familiar situations, allowing for flexible approaches in complex work environments
https://t.co/Kw8ceyKYsU
#JBIEBHC

[Paulina Bleah, NP, PhD @PNenwon]

Thank you @HealthPromInt for sharing this important work & congrats💐 to @pilar_camargo @dmacdonald902 @Kibitkette @jmalmost @QueensuSON

[Health Promotion International (OUP) @HealthPromInt]

🔔NEW at Health Promotion International

“We offer a starting point for Liberian policymakers to consider, in addressing barriers and challenges to diabetes prevention, management and care”

Read https://t.co/4BlRwzqyGG @PNenwon @jmalmost @Kibitkette @dmacdonald902 @pilar_camargo

[Paulina Bleah, NP, PhD @PNenwon]

Very excited to share our paper published in @HealthPromInt on diabetes in Liberia!

To the best of our knowledge, this is the first policy paper that directly addresses solutions for diabetes prevention, management and care in Liberia.

Read here: https://t.co/BOIbvCFiUD

[Tim Porter @TimPorter_]

21 tips for raising your kids to want to hang out with you when they are teenagers

1) Love them

[CBC Olympics @CBCOlympics]

Who?

Them 🇨🇦

[Raising Healthy Families @thriving__kids]

(LANGUAGE WARNING)

This is a harsh truth all of us parents need to consider,

Kids need their parents to parent.

Concerned about your kids on social media?
Dont let them on social media.

Concerned your kids eat too much junk food?
Dont let them eat junk food.

Concerned your kids are always on screens?
Dont let them have access to screens.

When they are old enough, its important to communicate WHY these things are limited or not allowed.

But in the meantime they need their parents to create boundaries

Kids are vulnerable to unhealthy habits.

They need healthy boundaries (and parents to enforce them) while they are figuring life out.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Lalala

[Paulina Bleah, NP, PhD @PNenwon]

Graduated last week with my PhD in nursing! Feeling elated, grateful & proud of how far God has brought me 😊

p.s. I graduated HS with a B+ and my guidance counsellor told me the most I would do is maybe college nursing. So, if you needed to hear that, I hope it encouraged you❤️

[Raising Healthy Families @thriving__kids]

Kids who help out with chores from an early age:

-Build confidence
-Learn valuable life skills
-Are happier later on in life

Its up to parents to:
-Include them in errands
-Give them tasks to do at home
-Praise them for their efforts & dont get frustrated when they mess up

[Paulina Bleah, NP, PhD @PNenwon]

Agree 1000%

[Raising Healthy Families @thriving__kids]

"My kid never eats at meals"
"My kid only eats noodles & nuggets"
"My kid always has meltdowns at meal time"

Bad eating habits aren't born. They are learned.

Here are X things parents do that create unhealthy eating habits in their kids

1. No structure around meals

HOW kids eat is just as important as WHAT they eat.

Too many kids:
-Eat in front of a screen
-Eat with toys or distractions at the table
-Eat under rushed conditions: "Hurry up or we will be late" or eating in the car on the way to school

This takes the focus & enjoyment away from food, and also leads to unhealthy food choices

Structured meal times as a family is a much healthier practice

2. Too much snacking

Big food companies have convinced us that kids need frequent snacks.

Its a brilliant plan that has created a billion dollar industry:

-They take cheap, unhealthy ingredients.
-Put it in a colourful package with cartoon characters on it for kids (and "healthy" labels like organic on it for parents)
-And sell it for a big profit

But kids dont need to constantly snack. Especially on processed junk.

This fills them up and will lead to them not being hungry at meal time.

Having scheduled snack time, and offering real foods, is a much healthier option.

3. Parents making 2 different meals

If kids dont want the chicken & rice you made for dinner,

and whine for noodles & nuggets,

and you make them noodles & nuggets,

they will keep whining for noodles and nuggets.

Make life easier on yourself and offer up 1 family meal

4. Parents eating unhealthy

Kids aren't going to eat chicken & carrots if mom & dad are crushing a pizza

If you want your kids to eat healthy, start by eating healthy yourself

5. Too much processed foods

SPOILER ALERT: Food companies dont care about your kids. They only care about profit.

They spend a lot of money to make their foods addictive. They do this by adding sugar and chemicals that manipulate the body's food cravings.

Processed foods are sabotaging your efforts to get kids eating healthier.
_________________________________________________

Every parent wants their kids to be healthy

But they simply cannot be healthy eating a diet of mostly processed foods

Take steps to greatly reduce these in your home and your kids will be so much healthier for it

[Paulina Bleah, NP, PhD @PNenwon]

Well then...🤔

[University Health Network @UHN]

Ontario hospitals with more than 35% female surgeons and anesthesiologists have better patient outcomes - including fewer deaths - according to one of the first studies to focus on sex diversity of operating room teams. 👇

https://t.co/iklG8E0Z4b

[Raising Healthy Families @thriving__kids]

Kids love to play

Parents can use this to get their kids more active

Make up games that get kids:
Rolling
Chasing
Jumping
Skipping

And do it to music. Do it while laughing! Do it with them!!

And your kids will grow up loving to be active

[Queen's Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs @queensgradstudy]

On this week’s Grad Chat, we talk to Jovina Concepcion Bachynski (PhD, Nursing) about her research into kidney supportive care!

Check out Grad Chat here: https://t.co/swR1hEsdnZ

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Animal speed comparison

[University Health Network @UHN]

Ontario has 2,000 Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORCs).

A new report from UHN's @NORCCentre explores ways to modernize Ontario's home care delivery by streamlining services in NORCs to offer better and preventative care. 👇

https://t.co/rR2yGfMz0Z

[Lincoln @flabbytofit99]

Parenting your children has 4 major phases.

Get stuck in one and you cause friction with your kids.

Learn the 4 C's of parenting and how to move to the next stage.

A thread:

[Madison Robertson @madirob12]

Excited to share the first publication of my PhD dissertation with @JBIEBHC #JBIES - Experience of loneliness and depression due to spousal separation by #LTC residents and their spouses https://t.co/Z1oFdCL84e

[Paulina Bleah, NP, PhD @PNenwon]

So proud to know and work with this group 🤎💕

[Paulina Bleah, NP, PhD @PNenwon]

While other regions of the world have started to take action to address #loneliness in meaningful ways, in @canada, we are falling behind. This policy brief from #WomensAgeLab outlines four key recommendations for action that can change this. https://t.co/nTV0m8osvS