Take out that extra lipstick. Throw out that pack of cigarettes. Clean out that overstuffed planner…are you really ever going to call that guy you met at a cocktail party three years ago? It’s time to rearrange your handbag with Caroline Dorsen, an advanced certified nurse practitioner and coordinator of the Advanced Nurse Practitioner Program at New York University’s College of Nursing. Dorsen recommends carrying the following for a healthy handbag:
1. Health Record
2. Medications
3. Gym Membership
4. Healthy Snack
5. Phone number of trusted
primary care provider
6. Personal phone book
7. Condom
8. Sunscreen
9. Something you enjoy doing/relaxing
(a good book, knitting kit, pictures of
family or friends, etc.)
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