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Wellness Wednesday
March 27, 2024 — 
#WellnessWednesday - Emotional Wellbeing Tip: Provide positive reinforcement and encouragement when a team member prioritizes healthy boundary setting between home and work....
Wellness Wednesday
February 28, 2024 — 
Wellness Wednesday - Intellectual Wellbeing Tip: Institute a weekly journal club with your colleagues, where you rotate choosing a recent scientific article for everyone to read and come together to...
Wellness Wednesday - Hearing Testing at AASV
February 21, 2024 — 
Wellness Wednesday - Physical Wellbeing Tip: Get your hearing tested for FREE at the AASV Annual Meeting! Thanks to efforts by the AASV Human Health, Safety, and Well-being Committee, basic hearing...
Wellness Wednesday
February 7, 2024 — 
Wellness Wednesday - Emotional Wellbeing Tip: Allow for time off to see mental health professionals and make medical appointments....
Wellness Wednesday
January 31, 2024 — 
Wellness Wednesday - Environmental Wellbeing Tip: Incorporate live plants into the workplace - being cognizant of toxicities if animals are around....
Wellness Wednesday
January 24, 2024 — 
Wellness Wednesday - Occupational Wellbeing Tip: Include allocations for continuing education for all the members of your practice in your organization's budget, and be supportive when time-off is...
Wellness Wednesday
January 10, 2024 — 
Wellness Wednesday - Creative Wellbeing Tip: Put a keyboard or guitar in the break room....
Wellness Wednesday
January 3, 2024 — 
Wellness Wednesday: Financial Wellbeing Tip - To the extent that you are able, put some money away in a savings and/or retirement account....
Wellness Wednesday
December 27, 2023 — 
Wellness Wednesday: Environmental Wellbeing Tip - Use environmentally responsible practices in the workplace and at home, like limiting paper use, recycling, and composting....
Wellness Wednesday
December 20, 2023 — 
Wellness Wednesday: Emotional Wellbeing Tip - Actively seek out laughter. Surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Try not to take yourself too seriously. Allow yourself to play. Read the...
Wellness Wednesday
December 13, 2023 — AASV Staff
Wellness Wednesday - Creative Wellbeing Tip: Change mediums: if you typically paint, try poetry. If you like crossword puzzles, try Sudoku. If you typically color with pencils, try markers or...
Flu in Pigs and People
November 29, 2023 — 
Flu viruses can spread from pigs to people and from people to pigs - how do you prevent the spread on your farm? Work with your veterinarian to develop a herd management and vaccination strategy to...
Wellness Wednesday
November 22, 2023 — AASV Staff
Wellness Wednesday - Spiritual Wellbeing Tip: Hold ethics discussions that give people the opportunity to talk about difficult scenarios they've encountered and how they chose to deal with them....
Wellness Wednesday
November 15, 2023 — 
Wellness Wednesday - Social Wellbeing Tip: When eating lunch with members of the team, refrain from talking "shop" and instead encourage everyone to share fun facts about themselves....
Wellness Wednesday
November 8, 2023 — 
Wellness Wednesday - Physical Wellbeing Tip: Drink AT LEAST half your bodyweight in ounces of water every day (cups of coffee do not count towards this total). The goal is to urinate often and clear....
Wellness Wednesday
November 1, 2023 — 
Wellness Wednesday - Occupational Wellbeing Tip: Determine the Myers-Briggs, DiSC, or Insights classifications or Strengths Profiles for everyone on your team. This will create a better understanding...
Wellness Wednesday
October 25, 2023 — 
Wellness Wednesday - Intellectual Wellbeing Tip: Foster a communal growth mindset in your workplace. This will include grace for learning and making mistakes, and modeling vulnerability in...
Wellness Wednesday
October 18, 2023 — 
Wellness Wednesday - Financial Wellbeing Tip: Invest in your community by making an effort to utilize the services of local businesses for various needs within your office or clinic. It will improve...
Webinar: Animal Depopulation Resiliency Check in Tool
October 17, 2023 — 
Last month, the USDA APHIS Veterinary Services Training and Exercise Program (VS TEP) hosted a webinar featuring the Animal Depopulation Resiliency Check-in Tool, a 5-question public health protocol...
Wellness Wednesday
October 4, 2023 — 
Wellness Wednesday - Environmental Wellbeing Tip: Learn about nature preserves in your area and make an effort to go exploring. Walking in a natural outdoor setting has been shown to be effective at...
Wellness Wednesday
September 27, 2023 — 
Wellness Wednesday - Spiritual Wellbeing Tip: Encourage all members of the community to develop their own set of values. We don't all have to agree and we can be respectful and intentional about our...
Wellness Wednesday
September 20, 2023 — AASV Staff
Wellness Wednesday - Social Wellbeing Tip: Limit time on social media. More than one hour a day is associated with a decrease in wellbeing....
Wellness Wednesday
September 13, 2023 — AASV Staff
Wellness Wednesday - Physical Wellbeing Tip: Get moving! Find some way to move your body that is fun for you, and do it multiple times a week. There are so many options from walking or running to...
Wellness Wednesday
September 6, 2023 — AASV Staff
Wellness Wednesday - Occupational Wellbeing Tip: Conduct a refresher course on safety in the workplace to reinforce best practices and decrease the risk of work related injury....
Wellness Wednesday
August 30, 2023 — 
Wellness Wednesday - Intellectual Wellbeing Tip: Pick up a new language or brush up on the Spanish or French you took in high school. Apps like Duolingo make it fun and easy to dabble in...
Wellness Wednesday
August 23, 2023 — 
Wellness Wednesday - Financial Wellbeing Tip: Offer employees a financial wellbeing program that educates them on topics such as debt reduction, asset management, and saving for current and future...
Wellness Wednesday
August 16, 2023 — 
Wellness Wednesday - Environmental Wellbeing Tip: Declutter your workspace and home by purging your belongings and donating what you can to a local thrift or consignment...
Wellness Wednesday
August 9, 2023 — 
Wellness Wednesday - Emotional Wellbeing tip: Debrief as a group after particularly taxing cases or challenging interactions. Work together to identify what about the situation was distressing and...

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Category abbreviations: AASV=Membership information, announcements, and other information from the American Association of Swine Veterinarians; Abs.=Abstracts from journal articles of general interest to swine veterinarians.; ALERT=Used to create email alerts; An.H.=Animal Health; Conf.=Conference announcements and other continuing education opportunities; FAD="Foreign" Animal Disease and other news most significant to regions outside of North America.; Food=Food Safety; Gov.=Information about legislation, regulations, and rulemaking that may affect the swine industry or swine veterinarians.; Hum.H.=Human health; Ind.=News from the pork industry, including NPPC and Pork Board activities.; International=Information regarding swine health and production internationally.; Jobs=Position announcements, primarily seeking swine veterinarians.; Meet=Provides a short synopsis of meetings of importance to swine veterinarians.; News=Agriculture related news events.; Nutr.=Swine nutrition; OP-ED=Opinion or editorial articles expressing the thoughts of individual Association members.; Pharm.=Pharmaceuticals and biologicals; PRRS=Articles from the AASV PRRS Task Force; Practice=Information associated with practice management or development.; Research=Research topics of interest to swine veterinarians.; Students=Information of interest to AASV student members.; USDA=US Dept. of Agriculture activities of interest to swine veterinarians.; Welfare=Animal welfare issues