School Nursing

The Relentless School Nurse: What Happened at School Today – Chris Amidon, BSN, RN, NCSN

Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN

Chris Amidon, BSN, RN, NCSN is an Indiana school nurse and NASN Director! She is one of my Twitter buddies and a co-creator of the #SchoolNurseChat and #SchoolHealthChat. Here is a link to Chris’s guest blog post from several months ago:

The Relentless School Nurse: Chris Amidon is “Not Throwing Away Her Shot”

Read about #WhatHappenedAtSchoolToday for Chris! 

Chris Amidon
Chris and her husband!

Hi! Actually took a couple vacation days with my husband. We are in Charleston and it’s so gorgeous! So I have a What Happened on Tuesday! We had a blood drive and kids were so proud of themselves for donating-even kids I know well because they have health or mental health issues. It was wonderful and I donated with them. – Chris Amidon, BSN, RN, NCSN

Workload: We are a small town, not quite urban, Suburban, nor rural! Crawfordsville is an hour west of Indianapolis. We have about 740 students, 9-12th grade. I also coordinate health services for the rest of our district, which has about 2,400 students and 6 RNs total.

 

They all gave permission for their photos to be used on social media.

Read Chris’s Bio:

I grew up in St. Louis. When I was 4 years old, I told my parents I was going to be “a nurse for little kids.” I’m not sure how I knew what that even was!
I graduated from DePauw University’s School of Nursing in 1987. I first worked in a busy ER at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, which was an excellent experience, but I found I missed finding out what happened to people who’d been in that accident or had that heart attack. I went to work in home health care in the small town where we had moved as newlyweds in 1987, Crawfordsville, IN. I enjoyed long-term relationships with patients and working so independently. 
When it became apparent we were going to continue to live in this small town, I became aware of school nursing and it opened the door for me to finally be a nurse for kids! I’ve been with the school system for 20 years now.

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Published by Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN

Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN is a Nationally Certified School Nurse, in her 24th year as a New Jersey school nurse in the Camden City School District. Robin is the New Jersey Director for the National Association of School Nurses. She is proud to be a Johnson & Johnson School Health Leadership Fellow and past program mentor. Robin has been honored by multiple awards for her work in school nursing and population health. She serves as faculty in the School Nurse Certificate Program at Rutgers University-Camden School of Nursing. Robin writes The Relentless School Nurse, a popular blog. Her extensive work in school nursing was included as a case study in the National Academies of Medicine Future of Nursing 2030 report. You can follow Robin on Twitter at @RobinCogan.

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