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
The Relentless School Nurse: This Is How Nursing Shows Up-On the Record
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
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The Relentless School Nurse: Protecting Children Has Never Been Optional. Ask a Grandparent.
The Winter 2026 edition of the Grandparents for Vaccines newsletter arrives at a moment when the ground beneath childhood immunizations continues to crumble. Federal rollbacks of long-standing vaccine recommendations have landed alongside falling vaccination rates and a resurgence of measles in communities across the country. For families, this has created uncertainty and confusion, layered onto… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: Protecting Children Has Never Been Optional. Ask a Grandparent.
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The Relentless School Nurse: When the Gunshot Isn’t Heard – How Parental Firearm Injury Shapes Children’s Mental Health
When a firearm injury happens, our systems know exactly what to do with the person who was shot. Stabilize.Operate.Admit.Discharge. What they are far less prepared to do is notice the children who go home afterward — the ones whose sense of safety has been quietly, sometimes permanently, disrupted. A new open-access study in the New… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: When the Gunshot Isn’t Heard – How Parental Firearm Injury Shapes Children’s Mental Health
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The Relentless School Nurse: When Confusion Is the Point
A note to readers:This piece is written from my perspective as a nurse and public health advocate. It is grounded in publicly available reporting, video evidence, and professional ethics related to care, safety, and accountability. I write because silence has consequences. Disagreement is part of public discourse; incivility is not. I’ve been thinking a… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: When Confusion Is the Point
