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The Relentless School Nurse: A New Era in School Nursing, the 2025 Version

Relentless School Nurse

While resilience is admirable, it has often become a euphemism for enduring unsustainable conditions without complaint. It means demanding conditions where we can do our jobs effectively without depleting our reserves. It erases the humanity of the individuals behind the title.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Read the “Role of School Nurses in the Health and Education of Children”

Relentless School Nurse

Key insights from our article include: The expanding responsibilities of school nurses, including managing chronic conditions, providing mental health support, and addressing public health emergencies.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Nurses Lead the Way, Opposing RFK Jr’s Nomination for HHS Secretary 

Relentless School Nurse

Senator Cassidy is also a practicing gastroenterologist and he shared his experience providing vaccine counseling and administration, even recounting a patient who needed a liver transplant due to hepatitis and resulting liver failure, a condition preventable with a vaccine she had failed to get.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Nurses Once Again Listed as the Most Trusted Profession…But Why Doesn’t It Feel That Way?

Relentless School Nurse

Here is the unResignation Letter , you can sign it and join the movement: Are you one of those school nurses who chose to resign or are contemplating leaving but would stay if conditions would support a healthy work environment? We do not have to tolerate intolerable work conditions, even if it means a significant job action.

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The Relentless School Nurse: How Are You Holding Up?

Relentless School Nurse

Current staffing ratios are untenable and create unsafe and impossible work conditions. We cannot tolerate intolerable working conditions that are unsafe and do not allow us to provide the most comprehensive care possible. . Certainly, that has become glaringly evident through the pandemic.

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Getting to the Heart of a Rare Genetic Condition

Stanford Childrens

A rare genetic condition meant a lot of uncertainty for an unborn baby. But her expectations took a sharp turn when she was five months along and an ultrasound revealed that her baby, Nya, had a heart condition. A multispecialty Stanford Medicine Children’s Health team came together to find answers.

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Add Movement to the School Day to Boost Student Physical Activity and Learning

SHAPE America

There are also a record number of kids with social-emotional-behavioral conditions. A CASE FOR MORE MOVEMENT IN SCHOOL Physical activity improves fitness, weight management, mental health, behavior, and most other medical conditions. At this juncture, it is more important than ever to educate the whole child with a lifespan approach.