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The Relentless School Nurse: Personal News – My New Heart Arrived at 3:00 AM

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She arrived at 3:00 am Saturday, November 18th. We waited patiently and then impatiently for Nora to find her way out. The birthing process is a marathon as someone reminded me around the 36th hour. Little Nora came into this world with the sweetest smile on her face. It was a family bonding time that I will never forget.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Georgia On My Mind

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From the moment I landed, to the moment I departed, the warm southern hospitality was extended to me with open arms. The theme was “Replenishing and Reimagining Your School Nursing Practice,” the two hour presentation concluded with two standing ovations, first time ever for me.

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5 Strategies for Using the National Physical Education Standards … and the Benefits of Being a Standards-Based PE Teacher

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Let me tell you a little bit about me. Using SHAPE America’s National Physical Education Standards as the guide to my teaching helps me prepare my students to take charge of their own physical literacy journey — and I recommend that’s where you start as well. It also helps me showcase what we are doing.

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The Relentless School Nurse: How Are You Holding Up?

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We are entering week #3, some of us more, depending on where in the country you live. The big question remains, what do we want school nursing to look like in this semi post-pandemic world? The big question remains, what do we want school nursing to look like in this semi post-pandemic world?

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The Relentless School Nurse: “Taking Action: 10 Top Priorities to Promote Health Equity and Well-Being in Nursing”

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Contributing to the newly released book, Taking Action: 10 Top Priorities to Promote Health Equity and Well-Being in Nursing, has been an honor and professional highlight for me. My deepest appreciation goes to Dr. Susan Hassmiller for being a champion of school nursing and extending her generous hand to me in so many ways.

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The Relentless School Nurse: What Do You Know? You’re Just The Nurse: A School Nurse Story

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Happy 2023-2024 friends, May we all have a tremendous, healthy, and safe school year. It was 3 short years after I started. There’s so much more to the story, but we will summarize it this way. We had a blowup one day where she yelled “What do you know? For today, we will keep it short. You’re just the nurse.”

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The Relentless School Nurse: The Fourth School Year Impacted by COVID is Coming

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For example, for students in Grade 7, their last normal school year was actually Grade 3! 5 evading vaccines and boosters, less than robust vaccination acceptance for students, and the politicization of public health mitigation strategies like masking, we are facing another difficult school year.

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