Author’s Note: This piece is written from a child health and public health perspective. It is not an argument about immigration policy. It is an examination of what happens to children and communities when immigration enforcement actions intersect with schools—and why that harm must be named. Earlier this week in Minneapolis, an Immigration and Customs… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: The Weight Schools Were Never Meant to Carry
The Relentless School Nurse: When the Work Outgrows the System
Over the last 25 years, I have seen how the needs inside our school health offices have multiplied. What once was manageable is now layered, constant, and inseparable from the complexities students bring with them. Students arrive carrying more health concerns, more anxiety, more instability, and, too often, fewer supports. So do the adults... The… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: When the Work Outgrows the System
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The Relentless School Nurse: Cutting the Childhood Vaccination Schedule Is “Health Policy Malpractice.”
Earlier today, the Department of Health and Human Services announced a major cut to the childhood vaccination schedule, significantly reducing the number of routine immunizations recommended for children. Framed as an expansion of “flexibility” and “individual decision-making,” the announcement offered little public explanation of the evidence supporting the cuts, or of the risks created by… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: Cutting the Childhood Vaccination Schedule Is “Health Policy Malpractice.”
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The Relentless School Nurse: After the Pause
Returning in January, after the pause, often feels less like easing back in the pool and more like jumping directly in the deep end—no warm-up, no shallow water, no gradual reentry. The systems we stepped away from did not rest. The conditions did not improve. The needs did not shrink. What changes is not the… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: After the Pause
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The Relentless School Nurse: Meeting the Moment
As this new year begins, I’ve been thinking less about whether school nurses will stay or leave, and more about how we respond to the conditions we are already in. School nursing is not practiced in a neutral landscape. The work is shaped by underinvestment, politicized public health decisions, widening student needs, and a long-standing… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: Meeting the Moment
