I encourage readers to listen to the Bulwark podcast episode, “Just Measles” Left Her Sister Disabled for Life. The podcast, along with the accompanying article, Meet the Horrified Grandparents Fighting for Vaccines, features Therese Vogel, a member of Grandparents for Vaccines, who shared the story of her sister contracting measles as a child. Therese’s sister… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: There is Nothing “Just” About Measles
The Relentless School Nurse: Antisemitism and the Shifting Shape of Safety
Author’s Note:This reflection explores how rising antisemitism is reshaping what safety feels like for Jewish children, families, and communities, and why bearing witness, out loud, is now part of protecting them. There are moments when something shifts, not all at once, but in ways that become impossible to ignore. I have felt that shift… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: Antisemitism and the Shifting Shape of Safety
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The Relentless School Nurse: Experience Is Not the End of the Story: It is the Part We Carry Forward
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
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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
