As I write this, retirement is beginning to come into view after decades in nursing and school health. If all goes as planned, I expect to step away from my daily work at the start of 2027. Retirement is often described as withdrawal, a quiet stepping back from work that has shaped a life. What… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: Experience Is Not the End of the Story: It is the Part We Carry Forward
The Relentless School Nurse: When the Healer Is Inside the Story – A Nurse’s Experience of the California Wildfires
The New Jersey Collaborating Center for Nursing (NJCCN) – the nursing workforce center for NJ – presents the Nursing Insights podcast.Author's Note: Before listening to Donna Gaffney's moving and deeply personal podcast, it is helpful to know that she speaks candidly about trauma, disaster, displacement, and survivor’s guilt during the California wildfires. These moments are shared with… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: When the Healer Is Inside the Story – A Nurse’s Experience of the California Wildfires
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The Relentless School Nurse: Thriving Is Not a Luxury – A Reflection on The New Rules of Women’s Health
 Women’s health has long been treated as episodic. Puberty. Pregnancy. Menopause. Everything in between is often reduced to symptom management or quiet endurance. What struck me about The New Rules of Women’s Health: Your Guide to Thriving at Every Age by Meghan Rabbitt is that it refuses that fragmentation. Built on three years of research… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: Thriving Is Not a Luxury – A Reflection on The New Rules of Women’s Health
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The Relentless School Nurse: Sharing My Guest Editorial in NASN School Nurse
NASN School Nurse is the clinical journal of the National Association of School Nurses. It creates room for reflection in a profession that rarely pauses, where decisions are made quickly, and the consequences are real. It is where evidence, experience, and evolving practice are brought into thoughtful conversation, not in theory, but in service of… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: Sharing My Guest Editorial in NASN School Nurse
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The Relentless School Nurse: The Fourth Branch of Government Is the People
The Op-Ed Nurses, Donna Gaffney and Teri Mills, skillfully crafted another Op-Ed, offering a framing that feels both clarifying and deeply necessary. We are all familiar with the structure of American government: As they reminded readers, Congress writes the laws, the president enforces them, and the courts interpret them. That architecture is foundational. But, as… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: The Fourth Branch of Government Is the People
