Category: School Nursing

  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

Author’s NoteI wrote this piece while trying to understand something that feels deeply broken: what it means when people who show up to help are harmed, and when accountability feels harder to reach than reassurance. This is not an attempt to offer easy answers. It is an invitation to sit with the questions, to refuse… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: What Happens When the Helpers Are Harmed

  This picture is of me — someone who has done this work for decades and is not flinching. I write The Relentless School Nurse. I write as a school nurse, not as a metaphor, but as a lived, professional identity. For nearly a decade, this space has been where I bear witness to how… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: My Line in the Sand – Respectful Discussion is Welcome. Personal Attacks are Not

From immigration "enforcement" to vaccine destabilization, public health is being dismantled in plain sight. This week, Liam Conejo Ramos,  a 5-year-old boy with a blue bunny hat and a Spider-Man backpack, was detained by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis. I can't unsee the image of the ICE officer holding the boy by his backpack, can… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: This Is Not Chaos. It Is Policy—and Children Are Paying the Price

Disclaimer: Carole King’s One Small Voice is a song about peace, truth-telling, and the quiet but powerful courage that builds change. This isn’t about politics — it’s about dignity, honesty, and the moral backbone required of us as humans, caregivers, educators, parents, and community stewards. There are songs we remember for melody… and there are… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: One Small Voice – A Song for Peace and Truth in Unsettled Times