Every now and again someone will post a picture on social media around “throwback Thursday” or such that takes me back to my childhood. Sometimes it is an old family picture that reminds me of life growing up with my parents and two sisters, and sometimes it’s a picture from…
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School Nurse
Bugs and Gaps- what’s the connection?
Achievement gaps. Those reports, the watch lists, and strategies to help ensure all students are successful. I wish that we could add “attendance gap” to the list but that’s a topic for another day… So what do bugs have to do with gaps? Maybe quite a bit. When I started in…
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Diabetes Tips
Things have sure changed since I went to school. Some may say for the good, some may say for the worst but either way life is different than I knew it. I was raised in an era where the lunch ladies made home cooked meals, the president’s wife wasn’t worried…
School Nurse
Food Allergies in the School and Classroom
In the 13 years I have worked in school health I am amazed at the increase in the incidence of food allergies in children. When I started in a district of just over 4,000 students, we had one maybe two children with a food allergy. In that same district there…
School Nurse
Those Pesky Critters……….
School is back in session. The children gather and lots of little heads are in one place. With that comes all they bring with them. Time for reading , writing and head lice. Yes, lice. They are in your school, and in your classrooms. You can use this PowerPoint…