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How Technology Can Support Students with Chronic Health Issues

Magnus Health

These conditions are increasingly prevalent among school-aged children due to risk factors like poor nutrition and physical inactivity. Conditions like asthma, diabetes , epilepsy, and severe allergies require ongoing management and can significantly impact a student’s academic performance and overall well-being.

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The Relentless School Nurse: The Uphill Battle – Reflections and Realities as Another School Year Closes

Relentless School Nurse

I wasn’t trained as a therapist, but I’ve become a bridge, connecting students with the limited mental health resources we have, coordinating with families, following up, checking in. I reminded them they weren’t alone. I know so many school nurses are doing the same. We are filling a gap because someone has to. We need support.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Just Because They Can, Does Not Mean They Should.

Relentless School Nurse

The removal of HRSN guidance undermines our ability to connect families with resources like housing interventions, nutrition programs, and medical care, all services that directly reduce health barriers to learning. However, it fails to consider the well-documented links between social factors and health outcomes.

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Lessons Learned From Decades of Advocating for Health and Physical Education

SHAPE America

WHPE leaders and representatives of several other local/state organizations related to health and wellness engaged citizens and state legislators as they stopped at various booths arranged in the Capitol Rotunda with the goal of educating and influencing attendees. How can you help us in offering better nutrition for our lunch program?

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The Relentless School Nurse: FAACTs Roundtable Podcast – Safely Caring for Students with Food Allergies is a Collaborative Effort

Relentless School Nurse

School nurses hold a pivotal position in the school community, ensuring the physical and mental well-being of students. Amid these constraints, school nurses work diligently to educate students, staff, and parents about various health-related topics, including nutrition, hygiene, and managing chronic conditions.

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Physical Education Waivers Make No Economic Sense

Physical Education Update

Well, unless it’s a marching band, there’s not much fitness involved in playing the flute. Both would benefit from the knowledge about health, flexibility, fitness and nutrition that PE classes provide. An ex-basketball player may not have time to play hoops but could fit in a jog…if she knew how to approach it without causing injury.

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Boy With Short Bowel Syndrome Living the Dream of a Better Life

Stanford Childrens

To survive and grow, he has been on total parenteral nutrition (TPN)—intravenous feeding—his entire life. Zhang has cared for Jah’Seki his whole life in the Intestinal Rehabilitation and Nutrition Support program, starting when she was in training. He was not doing well. She considers them family. His family is fantastic.