Relentless School Nurse

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Sharon Guthrie, PhD, ARNP, CPNP, NCSN, RN-BC Dear friends, On September 8th, 2023 , Sharon Guthrie , a beloved school nurse, Executive Director of the Iowa School Nurses Organization , friend to many, dedicated nursing professor, and advocate, had a life-altering motorcycle accident on her way to work.

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Relentless School Nurse

APRIL 26, 2023

Kathy McCutcheon, MSN, RN, NCSN, did her school nurse practicum in my office in 2003. She was an experienced nurse who had returned to school for her school nurse certification. We co-chaired the New Jersey State School Nurses Association (NJSSNA) Spring Conference in 2019, before the world shut down.

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Relentless School Nurse

JANUARY 21, 2024

I have spent this long snowy weekend (thanks to a snow day on Friday) thinking deeply about how I can regain my enthusiasm. I recently shared a blog post about Donna Gaffney’s new book, “Courageous Well-Being for Nurses.” Taking short breaks during the day to regroup is transformative. Protect your time!

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Relentless School Nurse

MAY 2, 2023

As a school nurse, I am always looking for ways to support my students and their families. Recently, I was introduced to an organization called “I Support the Girls (ISTG)” that provides essential items, like bras and menstrual hygiene products, to students in under-resourced schools. Willing to pick up!

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Relentless School Nurse

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Often when you scratch the surface of behaviors we see in school, there is fear, anxiety, sadness or despair. After all, we have not been in true lockdown for more than two school years. Our children are watching our words, our actions, how we respond to each other and the wanton disrespect that is spewed at each other every day.

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Relentless School Nurse

AUGUST 5, 2022

I was catching up on all of the news of the day, it was filled with updates on monkeypox (MPX), polio in wastewater in New York, and increasing COVID activity and I became more and more anxious about school reopening. Advocacy. . .

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Relentless School Nurse

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

She said; Rob, there is an active shooter at Carly’s school and she is hiding in a closet.” – Merri Novell, my sister. He was a 12-year-old boy in Camden, NJ, the same city where I am, and have been a school nurse for the past twenty-two years. Most guns in school shootings are taken from home (Carter, 2021).

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Stanford Childrens

JUNE 1, 2023

A mom changes the course of her son’s nearly fatal event Alex doesn’t remember much about what happened on the life-altering day he was at a playground with his mother, when he was 4 years old. “We His mother, Mary Nopachai, however, remembers the traumatizing day well. Stanford Children’s also does a lot of advocacy work.

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Stanford Childrens

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The first time was when he was just a few days old after he suffered a stroke during birth that injured a large area of his brain. When Isaac was in elementary school, he endured a lot of bullying, but his twin brother, Isaiah, always looked out for him, and so did his older brother, Jr., and older sister, AJ.

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Relentless School Nurse

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

School nurses are crucial in maintaining the health and well-being of students, which in turn affects their academic success and the overall functionality of schools. NASN emphasizes a multifaceted approach to determining appropriate school nurse staffing levels, moving beyond simple nurse-to-student ratios.

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Stanford Childrens

AUGUST 16, 2022

After so much advocacy, it seemed like we were basically her parents. Because Elyse is now 19, and she has a job and goes to school, it’s important to her to have a strong voice,” says Douglas Sidell, MD, FACS , her otolaryngologist ( ear, nose, and throat doctor ). It was clunky, and it buckled under her as she was learning to walk.

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Relentless School Nurse

JULY 23, 2022

The agenda was very tight, 1 minute to introduce yourself, your affiliations, and advocacy work, and each participant was given 2-3 min to share their remarks based on the following prompt: . I represent the NJ State School Nurses Association as Director to the National Association of School Nurses.

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Relentless School Nurse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Here is an extended trailer of the film: Find out where to view this documentary, but better yet, bring it to your organizations, your schools, your communities across the country. CATHERINE BOREK Scott’s wife, Catherine Borek, has been a public high school teacher in Compton, California, for over a quarter century. DR. ANTHONY S.

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Relentless School Nurse

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Representative Lauren Underwood, MPH, RN Nursing is political and this is a political blog post. I have never shied away from taking political stances because I am a nurse and nursing is inherently political. Here is our chance, as nurses, to take action in supporting one of our own, Representative Lauren Underwood.

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