Thursday, April 23, 2015

Moms Who Care & Yellow Roses

It's a good day when...
Someone brings you flowers!

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Hopefully Helpful School Nurse Tip: I've said it before & I'll say it again- Working with Moms Who Care is the best! Not only do they care about my students, but they care about me too! I'm blessed beyond words to work with this group of great volunteers.

I've received these yellow roses compliments of a former school board member and current Moms Who Care volunteer!

She said they are a Thank You for all of the hard work I do :)

She is sweet.... She works hard herself too and is greatly appreciated.

THANKS ANNIE!

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Lillian Wald and The History of School Nursing

What is the history of school nursing?

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Hopefully Helpful School Nurse Tip: Did you realize the idea of school nursing came about as an experiment? Luckily for us, the experiment was greatly successful! Read on to learn more...

How did it become that a nurse was needed to work in the school setting so many years ago?

We know in today's world there are a variety of situations requiring the need for a nurse in the school setting, but surely it hasn't always been that way. Or has it?

the history of school nursing

School Nursing Starting As An Experiment

In the late 1800s/early 1900s New York City allowed

1 nurse to work with 8,671 students.

The goal was simple, right?

exclude students who needed to be excluded from school
provide follow up care with those students and their families
enable those excluded students to return to school as soon as possible

That school year, the absenteeism rate decreased by 90%!

The experiment was so successful that New Year City hired 25 more nurses to work in their schools!

Although some of the needs students face today might be

a little different than when Lillian Wald began the school nurse journey;

the goal is still the same-

Promoting health in the school setting so students are ready to learn!

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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Free Samples for School Nurses!

Updated 6/6/2023

Free Playtex Samples!

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Hopefully Helpful School Nurse Tip: This post was originally written in 2015. At that time school nurses could email free.samples@havasimpact.com and request FREE Playtex samples be sent to their schools. I'm updating this post in 2023 and I'm not sure if those free samples from HavasImpact still exist. I have emailed, but I haven't heard back yet. So, I will also share about my DonorsChoose Period Poverty project that was recently fully funded!

2015- A parade of free tampons & liners made it's way into
my office this morning and we were thrilled!

Earlier this school year we ran out of tampon samples

and we only had pads available for the girls- some girls would be very disappointed. Great news though- earlier that school year we were contacted by the Teen Essentials program asking if we would be interested in receiving Playtex Sport Combo pack to share with our active female students involved in school sports activities.