Kate King has been a school nurse working with high-need students for 23 years. For as long as she’s worked in schools, she’s noticed a pattern: when students are struggling or don’t like a class, ...

WHERE WITH MORE TELL ME. THE MADISON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NOW HAS TWO NEW REGISTERED NURSES ON STAFF. WE’VE GOT A ONE THIS YEAR. THAT’S IT, RIDGELAND HIGH. JACKSON HIGH SCHOOL WITH THE ADDITION OF ...

In 1974, President Ford proclaimed that National School Nurse Day would be celebrated each year in January. Since then, the date has been moved to coincide with National Nurse Week. Nurses in our ...

(CNN) --As she held up her cell phone to take back-to-school selfies with the new school resource officers last week, the excitement of the first day swept through Liz Pray just as it had in previous ...

School nurses sometimes serve as a young patient’s only health provider. Yet many states don’t require them, and school districts struggle to hire them. By Colleen DeGuzman/KFF Health News Published ...

The nurse’s office at Green Street School in Brattleboro. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger In any ordinary year, Waitsfield Elementary school nurse Clayton Wetzel would prepare for the first day of ...

Many parents spend back-to-school season buying school supplies, meeting teachers and enrolling their children in sports and extra-curricular activities. While building relationships with teachers, ...

Camden Beatty, 17, receives his first COVID vaccine from nurse Sarah Foster at Thomas Worthington High School on April 7 through Nationwide Children s Hospital's first school-based vaccine clinics for ...

School nurses often are the first healthcare professionalsto diagnose lice infestations in children.Although lice do not transmit disease, many schoolssend children home if they detect live head lice.

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD)- A health clinic at R.B. Stall High School (RBHS) is helping more than just the occasional nose bleed or stomach ache for students. On National School Nurses Day, the ...