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The Relentless School Nurse: Why We Leave

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Why school nurses leave their positions has been on my mind a lot lately. The support for these school nurses who are leaving our ranks is plentiful and filled with sentiments like, “I might coming right behind you.”

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The Relentless School Nurse: Let’s Get to The Crux of the Disconnect Between Health Services and Educational Services

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Pat Hamilton, an Iowa School Superintendent, is choosing to reduce school nursing hours in order to “emphasize what our top priority needs to be, which is teaching and learning.” Cutting school nursing hours in order to save budgets directly impacts students.

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Volleyball (Middle School)

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The post Volleyball (Middle School) appeared first on OPEN Physical Education Curriculum. 6-8 Tools for Teaching Curriculum Resources Middle School PhysEd Modules

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The Relentless School Nurse: School Safety from a School Nurse’s Perspective: A Public Health Approach to Stemming Gun Violence   

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My topic is: School Safety from a School Nurse’s Perspective: A Public Health Approach to Stemming Gun Violence. Couched in between healthy and ready to learn is our most challenging charge as school nurses, keeping our students safe.

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The Relentless School Nurse: A Conference Four Years in the Making

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In March of 2020, as the world shut down, our New Jersey State School Nurse Association (NJSSNA) executive board made the decision to cancel our annual Spring conference. It was a day of reunions, celebrations and learning opportunities that brought together close to 300 NJ school nurses.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Become a School Nurse? Never Say Never!

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Sheila Taney wrote today’s guest blog post to share her journey to school nursing after a thirty-year nursing career. Why did she choose school nursing, after it had never been on her radar… or so she thought? School nurse? Here I am, a School Nurse.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Some thoughts on RELENTLESS SCHOOL NURSES by Judy Doran

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Here is a message from our friend, Judy Doran, the Maine school nurse who writes a guest blog aptly titled “Maine Points,” from her corner of the country. She is a school nurse friend with whom I have an unbreakable bond after being in the long COVID foxhole together.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Do You Know The Story of Nurse DonQuenick Joppy?

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School NursingThe blog post is in support of nurse DonQuenick Joppy, whose career and personal life have been upended by an injustice that could happen to any nurse, but especially, to nurses of color. In this era of restorative justice, calling out racism in nursing is not exempt.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Time to Pay Attention to the Mental Health of School Nurses

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. It has not been a figment of our imagination, or hyperbole that school nurses across the country have been struggling under the cumulative stressors of the pandemic. This was a collaboration between NASN, the CDC, and the National Association of State School Nurse Consultants.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Vote

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School Nursing . My message today is a simple one: VOTE . Vote your conscience. Vote for candidates who believe that healthcare is a human right. Vote for candidates who value protecting our children and teens from gun violence. Vote for candidates that uphold human dignity.

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The Relentless School Nurse: How One School Nurse Honors Healthcare Leaders During Black History Month

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She shares her story of how the project has expanded in this edition of “School Nursing Stories from the Field.” ” You might know Nurse Holly from the School Nursing Facebook page!

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The Relentless School Nurse: What if we are Getting Student’s Mental Health Crisis All Wrong?

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Often when you scratch the surface of behaviors we see in school, there is fear, anxiety, sadness or despair. After all, we have not been in true lockdown for more than two school years. Of course, this trend trickles down to school.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Thank you Good Morning America for Featuring School Nurses!

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Once again the power of social media has provided a format to showcase school nursing. We collaborated on a project last school year that featured Holly Giovi, one of the administrators of the School Nursing Facebook page. School Nursing

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The Relentless School Nurse: Stories From the Field – Meet Meg Jenkins!

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My last blog was a call for stories to share from school nurses across the country. I was excited to hear from Meg Jenkins, a New Hampshire school nurse and incoming Director to the NASN Board. What a blessing to see him in the school environment. School Nursing

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The Relentless School Nurse: Hope on the Horizon

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From my vantage point, I see a healthier school population of both staff and students. School nurses who stayed through COVID, give yourself a huge standing ovation. For the school nurses who chose to resign, retire early, or leave the profession, your contribution is equally important.

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The Relentless School Nurse: This is NOT SCHOOL SAFETY

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I came across this article, “North Carolina school district planning to put AR-15 in every school in the event of another school shooting,” and my heart started racing. This is not school safety. Hardening schools does not work. School Nursing

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The Relentless School Nurse: How Are You Holding Up?

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. School is back in full session. What are you doing differently this school year? The big question remains, what do we want school nursing to look like in this semi post-pandemic world? School nurses need to be supervised by school nurses. School Nursing

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The Relentless School Nurse: A Haunting Message From a Child Survivor of a School Shooting

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” This is the message 10-year-old Daniel Ruiz wrote to his cousin, who was killed at the Uvalde school shooting, along with classmates and teachers. “I’m sorry I let you down. I’m sorry I let you die.”

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The Relentless School Nurse: A Parent’s Back to School Question for 2022-2023

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A school nurse was asked by a parent at her elementary school’s open house if she was trained to respond to COVID, Monkeypox, and an active shooter. Many of the school shooters have connections to the schools they target. School Nursing

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The Relentless School Nurse: Are You Running Out of Steam?

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It is barely one month into school and I have already run out of steam. The frenetic energy of school has ratcheted up to a level that is even more chaotic than last year. . School NursingDoes anyone else feel this way? I can’t blame it on my age, that would be too easy.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Celebrating Wins

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Judy Doran, our Maine school nurse friend who writes “Maine Points” was determined to bring the concerning survey results about the state of mental health in school nursing to the public. I love to share good news from our school nurse colleagues from around the country.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Where Have All the School Nurses Gone?

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. The impact of COVID on school nursing is not yet fully realized, but what we do know is there are many open positions. The fall of 2022 looks rather bleak for some school districts. This summer, for the first time, I had school districts using agency nurses to fill summer positions.

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The Relentless School Nurse: I Had a Life-Enriching Experience at the Lake Nona Impact Forum

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I was invited to participate this year to share my work as a school nurse and family member of survivors and victims of gun violence. School Nursing

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The Relentless School Nurse: The Top 5 Blogs of 2022

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I am always happy to publish guest posts, especially stories from school nurses across the country! . I have published over 900 posts since the inception (2017) of The Relentless School Nurse and more than 5,000 followers on my Facebook page. School Nursing

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The Relentless School Nurse: Innovation at Maine’s Department of Education is a Roadmap to Support the School Nursing Workforce

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Kudos to the Maine Department of Education (DOE) for recognizing the impact of COVID-19 on their school nursing workforce. I am inspired by this program and believe it is a roadmap for all other DOEs across the country who are looking to support their school nurse workforce.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Thank you Project N95 for Providing Protection

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Today is our first day back to school after a much-needed holiday break. My Camden, New Jersey school district is one of two in NJ that is instituting a temporary return to universal masking following our break. School Nursing

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The Relentless School Nurse: Wendy Lamparelli Knew at Age Seven She Would be a Nurse – Here is Her Story

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Remember if you want to share your school nursing story, please email me at relentlessschoolnurse@gmail.com. I have a new one to share, this one is from Wendy Lamparelli, the lead nurse in her New Jersey school district. I think that sums up Wendy’s school nursing philosophy.

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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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The Relentless School Nurse grew out of a desire to describe the scope of school nursing practice. 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. School Nursing

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The Relentless School Nurse: Year #4 of COVID Comes to School

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The new “you do you” anti-public health approach to COVID has seeped into school classrooms and it is disheartening, to say the least. Welcome back to school is #COVID un Safe in the new 2022-2023 school year. . School Nursing

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The Relentless School Nurse: RWJF Celebrating Women Trailblazers Who Are Advancing Health Equity.

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Robin Cogan has been caring for other people’s children and advancing health equity as a school nurse, nurse educator, and nurse leader for more than two decades. School Nursing

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The Relentless School Nurse: Peers Supporting Each Other

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group of school nurses has quietly gathered every Sunday evening from 7 – 8 pm for more than two years in support of each other. We worked through the grief, worry, and realities of pandemic school nursing. School Nursing

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The Relentless School Nurse: Taking on the Public Health Crisis of Gun Violence

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That is one reason I am adamant, you might even say relentless, about having gun locks and the accompanying education available in school nurses’ offices across the country. PublicHealthApproachToGVP-EFSGV School NursingThere are some quotes that reverberate in my mind.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Coming Full Circle

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I am a Camden City School nurse. My first school was Cooper’s Poynt, where I had the privilege of serving more than 900 students for 12 years. On September 6, 1949, he was a 12-year-old boy getting ready to start Sharp school. School was starting the next day.

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Can your School PROVE its PE?

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Can Your School Prove its PE? Federal Laws Governing Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity in Schools. The ESSA encourages schools to provide opportunities for physical activity throughout the day and to support physical education programs that help students meet these guidelines.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Four Reasons We Need School Nurses Now More Than Ever

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Thank you to the @RWJF, for sharing my perspective on the work #schoolnurses do, the many ways we advance #healthequity , and what we need to better support students, families, schools, and communities. School Nursing

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The Relentless School Nurse: Our Last Layer of Protection – Boosters

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It is quite remarkable to return to school and the only space where masking is required is my health office. There are specific toolkits available for many communities, but one specifically for schools! HHS School Communities Toolkit. . . . School Nursing

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The Relentless School Nurse: If Only We Could Bubble Wrap Our Students to Keep Them Safe…

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We have had a series of community shootings that have resulted in lockouts in schools over the past few weeks. My alert has rung too many times in recent months, due to community gun violence that requires schools to respond.