We inherited a profession that other school nurses built.Now we are responsible for sustaining it. But that is not something most of us understand when we first become school nurses. Most of us enter school nursing focused on learning the job. We learn how to manage medications, respond to emergencies, write care plans,… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: Sustaining the Profession We Inherited
The Relentless School Nurse: The Most Pressing Issue in School Nursing Is Not What People Think
If you ask school nurses what the most pressing issue in our profession is right now, you will hear many answers. Staffing shortages. Student mental health. Workload. Burnout. Documentation. Delegation. Funding. School safety. Increasing medical complexity. All of these are real, and all of them deserve attention. But they are not the whole story. The… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: The Most Pressing Issue in School Nursing Is Not What People Think
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The Relentless School Nurse: More Than a Spoonful of Sugar
How a Sugar Cube, a Vaccine, and a Generation of Parents Helped End Polio There is a song that most of us can hear in our heads the moment we read the title. Julie Andrews, standing in the nursery in Mary Poppins, is singing about how a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: More Than a Spoonful of Sugar
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The Relentless School Nurse: There is Nothing “Just” About Measles
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
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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
