This week is National Health Education Week, putting a spotlight on something that can get overlooked in healthcare: making information actually useful. Knowing the medicine matters, but so does being able to explain it clearly, answer the questions people are sometimes afraid to ask, and help someone feel confident about what comes next. And for anyone entering healthcare, that’s a skill you’ll use in almost any role, long before you have all the answers!

What if you heard a loud explosion in your head with nothing actually happening? Or woke up convinced you couldn’t move? Medicine is full of phenomena that sound completely made up until you learn they’re real. We’re breaking down five of the strangest, including a few that might make your Halloween stories feel a lot less fictional.

💰 $1,000 F.A. Davis Healthcare Scholarship
Deadline: Oct. 30
Healthcare students can apply for a $1,000 scholarship to help fund their education. It’s open to students pursuing degrees or certifications in fields including nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, physician assistant studies, respiratory therapy and medical laboratory science.

🩺 $5,000 Nursing Scholarship
Deadline: Nov. 1
Nursing students, add this one to your list. The Certiphi-AACN Scholarship will award $5,000 each to three pre-licensure nursing students enrolled at AACN member institutions. A solid opportunity to put on your radar before November rolls around.

💼 Nurses, want to see where healthcare is headed? Thanks to support from Johnson & Johnson, 11 registered nurses can score free passes to HLTH USA 2026 in Las Vegas (Nov. 15–18). The Nurse & Clinician Insights Program includes a nurse hackathon, innovation showcase, clinician roundtables and networking with healthcare leaders.

If your hospital, clinic, or lecture hall feels approximately 20 degrees colder than everywhere else, consider this your sign to add a layer. This Cherokee scrub jacket is lightweight, stretchy, and easy to throw on over your scrubs when the temperature drops.