School nurses manage medications, provide first aid and care for students with chronic illnesses like diabetes, asthma and life-threatening allergies. They also play a critical role in supporting ...

At a high school in Red Clay, a school nurse observed 62 visits in the first four hours of the day, in addition to the 68 scheduled medications dispensed daily. School nurses say that’s the norm in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For 23 years I worked as a school nurse consultant. I participated in hundreds of meetings with students who were being evaluated ...

That’s why a school nurse at Cooper High School has brought Project Adam to the campus. "Project Adam was started by the parents of a young man named Adam," Christi Green, RN, Nurse at Cooper High ...

Egypt Middleton waved Conrad, a smiley 11-year-old in a “good vibes only” sweatshirt, back to her office and pricked his finger, coaxing out a droplet of blood that would tell them his glucose levels ...

Many people think of school nurses as the people in a school building responsible for patching up a scraped knee, confirming a fever and checking students for lice. It’s not that they don’t do those ...

As a measles outbreak escalated in Texas, a school nurse in Ohio picked up her phone and called the parents of a student in the building who had an exemption from the vaccine that protects people from ...

Oklahoma schools have lost more than 100 registered nurses since 2020, even as student medical needs continue to rise statewide. There is a case to be made for the need for registered nurses in ...