Fri.Jul 08, 2022

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The Relentless School Nurse: Making the Case for School Health Services Teams – A.K.A: Don’t Make Me Beg

Relentless School Nurse

Source: CDC. . Are we really going to make the public health blunders of January/February 2020 with Monkeypox? It can’t be true! We are still in the midst of at least one pandemic, with a few epidemics that are uniquely American, like gun violence, and now we have Monkeypox staring us down. We cannot ignore the scale of the response needed to mitigate the spread of this virus.

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Keeping the Sparks Aflame: Preventing and Addressing Burnout in High School Student-Athletes

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<p>Student-athletes continuously navigate physical, psychological, and social demands including balancing academics and athletics, while striving to meet both internal and external expectations. Participation in athletics has numerous benefits such as mood enhancing effects, development of life skills (e.g., leadership, time management, resilience), and sense of belonging (Zuckerman et al., 2021).