Relentless School Nurse

MAY 7, 2023

The Oliver’s form of activism uses art to make profound social statements about gun violence in our country. Clearly, it is for adults for a specific purpose, and not children, but it tells the story of their son Joaquin’s last day of school, February 14, 2018.

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SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

These are the real stories of four student athletes whose athletic dreams and abilities were deeply impacted by vaping nicotine. Vaping and Youth Athletes: An Emerging Issue Some young athletes who vaped nicotine, like those highlighted in the real stories above, found that it harmed their health and performance. Study the film.

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Relentless School Nurse

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

March of 2024 will mark four years since the COVID-19 pandemic gripped our nation and the rest of the world. Her story sheds light on the personal and professional struggles endured by healthcare professionals during this unprecedented time. But cowering in the dark places of our minds doesn’t help. Click to view slideshow.

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Relentless School Nurse

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

More wonderful stories from the field are filling my mailbox! Remember if you want to share your school nursing story, please email me at relentlessschoolnurse@gmail.com. Here is Wendy’s story, how she knew at the young age of seven, that she was destined to become a nurse. Wendy Lamparelli RN MEd.

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Relentless School Nurse

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

She shares her story of how the project has expanded in this edition of “School Nursing Stories from the Field.” As a school nurse in an elementary school, I believe it is important to showcase influential Black leaders in nursing and medicine to our students.

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Relentless School Nurse

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Your insights, questions, and stories have been the heartbeat of this blog, and I’m reaching out to you once again for inspiration. Do you have a personal story of triumph or challenge that you think others should hear? Personal Stories: Have you or someone you know experienced a remarkable health journey in a school setting?

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Relentless School Nurse

DECEMBER 28, 2023

With the rise of budget cuts due to COVID funding ending after this 2023-2024 school year, we must do everything possible to raise awareness of the importance of our role. This blog post focuses on our role in managing students’ needs with special healthcare needs.

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Relentless School Nurse

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Congratulations to author, Maria Smilios , whose first book, “Black Angels,” has been released to an eager audience ripe to learn the “untold story of the nurses who helped cure Tuberculosis.” ” Her newly published book is receiving well-deserved attention and acclaim for bringing this story to life.

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Relentless School Nurse

MARCH 17, 2023

I read the list of women and the individual stories that are linked in the article. Our Culture of Health blog highlights many generations of health leadership from women activists who have dedicated their careers to advancing health equity. We hope you are inspired by their stories.

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Relentless School Nurse

DECEMBER 14, 2022

They were woven into a story published today to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Sandy Hook and the subsequent school shootings since that day, December 14, 2012. . Imagine what would happen if every person in this country did everything in their collective power to keep our children safe from harm, at school and at home.

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Relentless School Nurse

OCTOBER 27, 2023

.” – Mark Lazenby PhD APRN “Taking Care – The Story of Nursing and its Power to Change Our World” offers a compelling exploration of the intricate and substantial role that nurses have played and continue to play in society. Thank you, Sarah DiGregorio, for this gift to nursing.

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SHAPE America

MARCH 23, 2023

Day, we both started thinking about how we could use our experience in the field and our shared passion for policy and advocacy to encourage others to engage in advocacy efforts year-round. As a profession we have long put our advocacy efforts onto others, such as school or district leaders. After attending SPEAK Out!

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SHAPE America

OCTOBER 17, 2022

As educators, you know that National Health Education Week is a good time to focus on issues that affect the health of our nation’s youth. Students will find real-life stories and relatable content to help them understand vaping, nicotine addiction, common myths about e-cigarettes, and how to say no to vaping.

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SHAPE America

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The Vaping Prevention and Education Resource Center features real-life stories and relatable content to help students gain health literacy about vaping as a serious issue that could impact their overall health and wellbeing. Students who visit the site can access classroom assignments, activities, Vaping 101 articles, and videos.

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Relentless School Nurse

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I have come to the conclusion that our country is filled with road rage. The anger and aggression in the community comes into school and our children are watching how adults are interacting. There is a level of community disrespect that feels very troubling and our children are listening and learning from the adults in their lives.

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SHAPE America

MAY 19, 2022

I think Penn State did not want to sign the paperwork for fear the next step might be our demand to have full varsity status. Here I am (bottom row, far left) with my Penn State women’s soccer teammates, receiving our honorary varsity “S” letters in 2018, more than 35 years after we filed a Title IX lawsuit against Penn State.

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Relentless School Nurse

AUGUST 25, 2023

Although our mission was the same, our worldview couldn’t be more different. There’s so much more to the story, but we will summarize it this way. After discussing, crying, and reframing our worldviews, we started fresh and made an unbelievable team for our kids. Pure chaos. You’re just the nurse.”

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Changing the Game Project

APRIL 23, 2024

Our mom was our rock, our beacon of unconditional love, and the person who encouraged all of us to follow our hearts and make a life out of what we are most passionate about. She babysat so their mom and I could steal away, and we would come home to all the neighborhood kids hanging at our house with Granny O.

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Relentless School Nurse

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Today’s guest post is from our friend Holly David one of the moderators of the private School Nursing Facebook group! Let us have our day that we dress up the same!!! When we stand in solidarity, we stand stronger for our beloved students! From what I have seen, we ALL need to come together across the nation as ONE!!

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Relentless School Nurse

MARCH 11, 2024

Sometimes our advocacy is born out of personal experiences. I applaud you, Kelly, for sharing the compelling story of your daughter’s experience with vaping, in her own words. She is also a courageous advocate spotlighting the epidemic of vaping at school, but also at home.

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Drowning in the Shallow

JANUARY 29, 2023

One way is to improve our ethical decision making, which requires a shift in mindset in how we see PE, how we advocate for PE and how we respond to other people’s stories of their experience of PE. How can we ensure that experience of PE does no harm?

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Relentless School Nurse

JULY 23, 2022

I write a weekly blog called The Relentless School Nurse in an effort to amplify the voice of school nurses so that the community understands the scope of our role in efforts to advocate for safe staffing in schools to meet the increasingly complex needs of our students. We want our children to flourish.

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Stanford Childrens

APRIL 8, 2024

Sarah Best was scrolling on Instagram while at home in Sacramento when she came across a stranger’s story. The story described a 14-year-old named Jaxon Shaneyfelt from Turlock, California, who got unexpected news that he had kidney failure. “He Words will never be able to express our appreciation.

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Relentless School Nurse

DECEMBER 27, 2022

I am always happy to publish guest posts, especially stories from school nurses across the country! . Let’s collectively welcome 2023 as the year that COVID is finally in our rearview mirror! Here are the dates for this winter, contact me via relentlessschoolnurse@gmail.com for a link to our Zoom.

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Relentless School Nurse

DECEMBER 26, 2023

They are an excellent way for us to bring our authentic school nursing perspectives to the public, especially since nurses are seldom represented in print media healthcare coverage. The Woodhull study found that nurses were cited as expert sources in health-related news stories only 2% of the time.

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Relentless School Nurse

DECEMBER 11, 2022

But these are the exact problems that impact our students and school communities: poverty, violence, toxic stress, mental health, health equity, food insecurity, housing insecurity, and immigration status…all wicked indeed. The ability to feel connected is hard-wired in our neurobiology. What makes something better is connection.”

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SHAPE America

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

We are proud of the role we have played in this progress, but we have not done it alone, and our work is not done yet. As an extension of Health Literacy Month, we encourage you to join in celebrating Ask, Listen, Learn’s 20 years of prevention education with our #Take20withKids initiative. Prevention Education Is Key.

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Relentless School Nurse

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The school year is well underway, and with that comes the stressors and pressures from juggling so many competing needs, including our own! Many school nurses are simultaneously taking care of hundreds (or thousands) of students as well as our own families, including multiple generations.

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Relentless School Nurse

AUGUST 1, 2023

To our surprise, there were few outlets that wanted to address the topic. Our deep appreciation goes to NJ.com Opinion for their courage to publish the op-ed. It then falls on us to fulfill our role and obligation to help students cope with the associated stressors, and one tool we rely on is books and stories.

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SHAPE America

AUGUST 11, 2022

When I meet higher ed colleagues from other PETE programs at conferences and other events, our conversations often turn to issues we are facing with our students. In our race, some take the gold; they easily land what they think will be the perfect job. It’s so much easier to coast, but our stakeholders deserve better.

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Relentless School Nurse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Science journalist and brilliant author Donna Jackson Nakazawa has delivered another beautifully written book, this time focused on our girls. Girls on the Brink: Helping Our Daughters Thrive in an Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression, and Social Media. by Donna Jackson Nakazawa. – Donna Jackson Nakazawa.

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SHAPE America

MARCH 14, 2023

Each year, our school’s Gone Fishin’ trip combines physical education with outdoor recreation. Our vision grew out of a simple question: “What would happen if we closed school for a day and went on a quest of sorts?” We then reached out to our parent body and had half a dozen willing parents and grandparents step forward.

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Relentless School Nurse

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Christine Miles, NJEA Director of Professional Development & Instructional Issues for inviting me to share my family’s story of gun violence over several generations. Clearly, this list is incomplete, but you see the examples of spaces invaded by gun violence have permeated all aspects of our daily lives. Pediatrics.

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Relentless School Nurse

JANUARY 17, 2024

Elizabeth wrote an Op-Ed for Maryland Matters about her experience advocating for this important legislation to keep our students safe in an ever-evolving digital society. New technologies are changing our society, economy, and industries faster and on a larger scale than ever before. It is about privacy.

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Relentless School Nurse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

On Saturday, October 8, 2022, I will be participating in Gun Violence Awareness Day in Camden, New Jersey, the city where I work, but also where my family’s story of generational gun violence began. . I have told my family’s story many times. We can find common ground in creating safe spaces for our children & teens.

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Gopher PE

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Rock climbing holds a special place in our hearts. Our adapted students have a wide variety of personal challenges ranging from non-verbal autism, Down Syndrome, Wheelchair-bound, and OHI’s. All students have needs, but for our students, multiple accommodations must be made to ensure safety and more importantly, SUCCESS!

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Relentless School Nurse

MARCH 12, 2023

LNIF is not a conference, it truly is a conversation, actually dozens of conversations, about what is possible in healthcare, science, art, music and human design to improve the wellbeing of our world. It has been barely 48 hours since our conversation and I am still processing the experience.

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