Beverly OMalley
MAM(health), BSN,
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Organizing and Learning How to Organize Expert
Beverly OMalley Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- organizing and learning how to organize
- Career Focus
- educator
Bev OMalley has over 35 years of experience in nursing and is a health promotion specialist.
She is currently employed at a university where she teaches internationally educated nurses who are upgrading their skills and experience to become a registered nurse in Canada.
Beverly is passionate about health promotion and likes to write about topics that help people become empowered in their everyday lives.
She is fascinated by the effect of the organized environment on human health and wellbeing.
Oh and she loves to organize just about anything!
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Declutter Tactics - Extreme Techniques for Getting Rid of Clutter
Do you need to declutter but are unsure of where to start? Are you held back by fear of throwing out something you might need or want? Do you keep items that are perfectly good (or maybe not so good) because you cannot live with the guilt of throwing them away? The declutter tactics profiled here for clearing clutter might be just the solution you are looking for. These suggestions are not meant to be a systematic way of clutter control. These extreme tactics are for people who are held back by confusion or emotion and then do nothing rather than try to analyze what is really going on.
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Chronic Bronchitis Symptoms - Smoking Facts About the Early Symptoms of Emphysema
Chronic bronchitis symptoms can easily be dismissed as a nagging smoker's cough. The characteristic productive and persistent cough experienced by many smokers is one of the early symptoms of emphysema. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) symptoms include both the productive cough associated with chronic bronchitis and the shortness of breath that results from emphysema. The smoking facts on emphysema reveal that damage to the lungs cannot be reversed and you must quit smoking cigarettes to avoid complications and worsening of the disease.
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10 Smoking Facts to Help You Change Your Attitude to Your Cigarette Addiction
What are the smoking facts? Smoking can kill you, and your cigarette addiction can also kill others. If you want to quit cigarette smoking you need to start by changing your attitude and beliefs about your cigarette addiction.
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Heart Attack Symptoms Include Denial - "Maybe It Will go Away"
In Canada more than 70,000 heart attacks occur annually. More than 19,000 people die every year as a result. Cardiovascular disease is still a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Canada so learning more about heart health and how to manage heart health emergencies should be on everyone's agenda. What is a Heart Attack? The technical term is a myocardial infarct. Myocardial refers to the cardiac muscle (yes the heart is a muscle) and infarct refers to tissue death. As a result of the lack of blood to the heart, part of the heart muscle dies from lack of oxygen.
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Childhood Obesity - Fitness and Nutrition Facts for Child Health Promotion
The rates of childhood obesity in Canada has tripled in the last 25-30 years. Data reports from other developing countries is quite similar. Childhood obesity is becoming a worldwide epidemic. There can be no question that the two most significant factors in the childhood obesity epidemic are ...
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Getting Organized - Small Steps Can Be Giant Leaps in Personal Organization
Getting organized is such a sought after goal that it is right up there with losing weight and quitting cigarette smoking as a popular resolution at the start of each new year. Almost everyone feels that a little closet organization, better money management, or less multitasking will make life better. When you resolve to organize your life what is the end product that you envision? More time to do what you want to do? less time spent looking for things you need? reducing the number of things, items or household chores that you have to manage?
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The Baby Boomer Generation and the Demographics of Clutter
The baby boomer generation is the population that represents the children of the silent generation (born prior to 1945). They became the parents to generatio X (bo 1965-1981). The baby boomers have exerted significant influence on the trends seen in modern societies simply because their generation represents the children of the silent generation (born prior to 1945). They became the parents to generatio X (bo 1965-1981).
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Testicular Cancer and Marijuana Use
One of every 273 male babies born this year will be diagnosed with testicular cancer in their lifetime. This makes it a form of cancer that could be classed as "not that common" however, since it is the commonest cancer affecting young men between 20 and 39 years old it is a significant disease ...
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Colic, Breastfeeding and Infant Nutrition - Fat is Where it's At
Colic- what a word! This little five letter words strikes fear in the hearts of most new parents and brings to mind visions of sleepless nights, and endless frustration in trying to parent the new bundle of joy. Any parent who has ever had a colicky baby would not wish the same fate on anyone. ...
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases - the Female Condom is a Barrier Method for Safer Sex
Sexually transmitted diseases are infections that are transmitted through sexual activity. Any sexual activity can transmit the pathogens that cause STD's. Penile vaginal contact is not a requirement for transmission. You can pick up a sexually transmitted disease through oral genital ...Sexually transmitted diseases are infections that are transmitted through sexual activity. Any sexual activity can transmit the pathogens that cause STD's. Penile vaginal contact is not a requirement for transmission. You can pick up a sexually transmitted disease through oral genital contact.
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Cholesterol Levels and Ratios - Are Cholesterol Numbers Confusing You?
Cholesterol levels are being tested as part of regular health screening all over the world yet many people are confused by their cholesterol numbers and how they are expressed. Part of this confusion may stem from the fact that most of the cholesterol literature is coming from the United States ...
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Attention Baby Boomer Generation - Understanding Your Silent Generation Parents and Their Clutter
The baby boomer generation was born after 1945 when their parents (the silent generation), started to establish families and communities after the hardship of the second world war.
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Smoking Facts and Fiction
The smoking facts show the dangers of cigarette smoking. Diseases directly related to the harmful effects of tobacco use kill 650 million people annually. You already know that smoking is bad for you, isn't it time to explore why you continue your nicotine addiction?
June 9, 2010
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Registered Nurse Canada
www.registered-nurse-canada.com explores the uniqueness of the nursing profession in Canada and provides information to registered nurses in other countries who want to become a nurse in Canada.
February 4, 2009
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Organization Makes Sense
Information about how organization works so you can make it work in your own life.
February 4, 2009
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Beverly OMalley
"It's amazing what you can do when you start with a plan eh?" - Mike Holmes
"Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential" - Winston Churchill
"Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it,
it is not all mixed up." - Winnie the Pooh
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I am fascinated by the influence of personal organization skills on success and the ability to create and establish a life that is in control. It amazes me that people think that they are victims of some sort of strange circumstances and that they have no control over their own life.
The same personal organization skills that help people to plan their space can be used to plan their own lives.
The best way to get a life that is more under control?
- learn how to set priorities
- set boundaries
- establish good personal organization habits
- know and understand your own life - it is not an accident. Your life is what you have created.