With finals week looming on the horizon as the end of the spring semester draws nigh, Purdue Veterinary Medicine fostered positive energy and productive mindsets with its Wellness Week. A schedule of daily encouraging and stress-relieving functions during the week of April 21 to 25 helped students, faculty, and staff keep a focus on the importance of wellness.
The week began with a fun, interactive opportunity to spin the \u201cWellness Wheel\u201d for a chance to claim prizes that creatively conveyed reminders about the value of proactive approaches to health and wellbeing. Another feature of the week was the opportunity to \u201cpaws\u201d for a Wellness Walk with the college\u2019s Canine Educators \u2013 the team of dogs that are cared for by first- and second-year DVM students as well as second-year veterinary nursing students. The canines are like the students\u2019 first patients, enabling them to gain hands-on experience performing various physical exams and basic skills, all under the supervision of an instructor. The walk promoted light physical activity while giving members of the PVM community a chance to mingle with the beloved canines.
Other Wellness Week functions included a morning bagel and coffee station Thursday, sponsored by Hill\u2019s Pet Nutrition, that served as a way of helping to \u201cSpread the Wellness\u201d and the cream cheese; and an \u201cAffirmation Station\u201d where anyone could write encouraging messages of support on post it notes and affix them to a display outside the Veterinary Medical Library.
In all these ways, Wellness Week provided meaningful reminders to students, staff and faculty about the importance of prioritizing well-being and supporting one another\u2014especially during the demanding final stretch of the academic year. A special thank you to the college\u2019s Wellness Committee for planning this spring\u2019s Wellness Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With finals week looming on the horizon as the end of the spring semester draws nigh, Purdue Veterinary Medicine fostered positive energy and productive mindsets with its Wellness Week. A schedule of daily encouraging and stress-relieving functions during the week of April 21 to 25 helped students, faculty, and staff keep a focus on the importance of wellness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":29717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,41,28,29,42,2181],"tags":[1095,2280,2279],"class_list":["post-29716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-faculty-staff","category-our-impact","category-our-people","category-students","category-wellness","tag-canine-educators","tag-our-impact","tag-wellness-week"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29718,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29716\/revisions\/29718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}