School Health Services Update: January 30th, 2019
Dear Colleagues, Included in the email below is a new American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement that recommends among other things that pediatricians avoid writing excuses for school absences when the absence is not appropriate. Both excused and unexcused absences contribute to chronic absenteeism and pediatricians must partner with schools to encourage school attendance. This […]
School Health Services Update: October 3, 2018
Dear Colleagues, A recent nursing blog written by a school nurse entitled “The Challenges of Being a School Nurse and How to Resolve Them” by Tessa Curry (found at https://nursegrid.com/blog/the-challenges-of-being-a-school-nurse-and-how-to-resolve-them/ ) highlighted the challenges of “working as the school nurse at a learning institution” and discussed how practicing nursing outside of a healthcare environment comes […]
School Health Services Update: July 7, 2018 – Summer Edition
Colleagues, While some of you are away on vacation, many of you are still providing much needed services to our students over the summer months! Many of you are working in your offices, planning programs for the coming year, sorting through volumes of new physical exams and immunization records, cleaning and sorting offices, contacting families […]