i am the school nurse

I AM THE SCHOOL NURSE POEMS

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Hopefully Helpful School Nurse Tip: Writing is an excellent way to share our personal school nurse stories and to help spread awareness about school nurse as a profession. These are two of my I AM poems about being a school nurse. Read mine, then submit yours today!

Yes, I Am The School Nurse

Writing these poems gives me and other school nurses the chance to document who we are professionally and a particular time in our school nursing career. Over the years the poems will change depending on our situations, experiences, and current issues.

The original 'I Am The School Nurse' poem was posted on September 28, 2011. 

It refers to who I was as a school nurse at that particular time in my career. I then wrote another poem (2013) which represented more closely that time in my professional life and those different experiences I was dealing with. I wish I had written something similar back in 1996 when I first started school nursing- how interesting would that be to read today!?

2013 I Am The School Nurse Poem

i am the school nurse 2013

2011 I Am The School Nurse Poem

i am the school nurse 2011

How have you changed over the years?

Is there a particular situation or student that really stands out in your mind?

I would love to hear from you!

  

Write With Me- The School Nurse Anthology

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Diary Of The School Nurse blog?

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Hopefully Helpful School Nurse Tip: Writing is an excellent way to share our personal school nurse stories and to help spread awareness about school nurse as a profession. I hope you consider sharing a meaningful story today! Click one of the above pictures to submit your heartfelt story and/or poem.

I have this elementary love for I AM poems and thought many of you might too.

I AM poems are easy enough to write, yet strong enough to be full of emotion.

Please accept this invitation to share your I AM poem with me. 

2020 has been quite the year and writing about your challenges, achievements, guilt, happiness, and/or sadness might be just the outlet you need 

(and didn't even know you needed!).

WRITE WITH ME

i am a student with drug addiction... I Am Poem

Student Drug Addiction

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Hopefully Helpful School Nurse Tip: Even young children / young adults can struggle with very grown up issues. School nurses in the middle school / high school setting will see this first hand at some point in their career. When it happens, it is usually shocking, saddening, and makes you feel helpless.

It's Complicated

People of all ages struggle everyday with addiction.

As a school nurse, one part of my job is to explain the school district's drug / alcohol counseling program and to gather urine samples for drug/alcohol urinalysis.

This part of the job can be very emotionally draining.

I see a lot of kids who look like every day teenagers on the outside,

but on the inside they struggle deeply with some very "grown up" problems.

To help keep myself focused on what needed to be done &

instead of "worrying" about things I have absolutely zero control over-

I wrote a poem...

I know you're not surprised! 

I've written other poems before; it seems to be therapeutic for me!

It might be therapeutic for you too- give it a try with this guided form.

student with drug addiction poem by the school nurse