Brady United Against Gun Violence has been nominated for a Project for Awesome 2026 Award, and I am adding my vote in support of their work. Please join me! For those of us who practice at the intersection of child health and public health, the reason is not complicated. Since 2020, firearm injury has been… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: Support Brady United for the Project for Awesome 2026 Grant – Because Protecting Children Is Not Optional

There is no formal notification to the school when a child is detained. The absence just appears in the system. Attendance marked. The health record remains open. Medications are missed, and refills are not picked up. A teacher asks if anyone has heard from the family, and the answer is the same each time: no,… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: What Schools Witness When Children Are Taken

In school health offices and communities across the country, measles hasn’t simply “come back.” It has been accelerating, steadily and predictably, as vaccination rates decline and evidence-based guidance is weakened, blurred, or treated as optional. That reality is made clear in recent interviews with Dr. Arthur Lavin,  a retired pediatrician and the founder of Grandparents… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: Measles Did Not Suddenly Return. It Has Been Accelerating.

What Children Absorb Doesn’t Stay Abstract Children do not arrive at school untouched by the world around them. They absorb messages, about who belongs, who is suspect, and who is safe, at home, online, in the car, and in the news. Those messages don’t stay abstract or harmless. They show up as words in classrooms,… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: Anti-Immigrant Messages Are Breaking Our Children

Author’s Note:The official public comment period for the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed rule, Reimagining and Improving Student Education, which would reclassify nursing and other graduate education programs as non-professional, opened with its publication in the Federal Register on January 30, 2026. The comment period is open for 30 days. Comments must be submitted by… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: This Is How Nursing Shows Up-On the Record