Our members are educators, speech pathologists, a retired school nurse, school psychologists, retired diagnosticians and a grandmother of a student with special needs.
Coalition members include faith leaders, the chief of the Newtown police department, public and private school principals, counselors, health care professionals including a school nurse and emergency room doctor, high school students and several other community members.
In England, the subject is often covered in Personal Social and Health Education lessons and normally, if teachers spot signs that young people are self-harming they will tell the school nurse or person responsible for child protection at a school.
Six were students, one was the 61-year-old school headmistress and one was the 42-year-old school nurse.
That's a question every parent should ask, for today a missing school nurse isn't the exception but the rule.
The bottom line, Davis-Alldritt said, is that the school nurse's job tends to be at risk during budget cut time.
The school nurse sent over a child with a nasty-looking dog bite to the face, who Dr. Kjolhede determined needed antibiotics.
Thanks to the alert school nurse, Osofsky-McGonigle made it to the emergency room about an hour and 20 minutes after her first symptoms.
Having no school nurse can mean that kids who have or develop a serious health problem may not receive immediate diagnosis or treatment.
Sally Schoessler started as school nurse in 1992 in New York state, and didn't encounter a child with a food allergy for a few years.
Her family is well-known in the small New Hampshire town, where Ms. Lanza's mother was a school nurse and her brother, James Champion, works in law enforcement.
Patrick Harvie, co-convener of the Scottish Green Party, said using the school nurse network to offer greater access to contraception would help the government tackle unwanted teenage pregnancies.
Annie England, School Nurse, Wigan Leigh Area Health Service Trust.
Communication with teachers, administrators, coaches, and the school nurse is key to ensuring that a food-allergic child does well, in terms of staying safe from allergens and psychologically speaking, Bassett said.
Last year's winning documentary, Food for Thought, featured interviews with food industry professionals, the school nurse, members of the public, Isca students and the executive head chef of Jamie Oliver's Fifteen restaurant at Watergate Bay in Cornwall.
Davis gave a sideways smile, trying not to show the pleasure he took in this validation of his character from the school nurse, whose wispy sexiness, Lucy suspected, was a factor in the prompt reporting of his symptoms.
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- When teacher Karen Myhre fell to the floor after taking attendance one morning, her third-graders knew exactly what to do: Ring the bell to alert the school office, and run to get the school nurse.
The Yankees declined to make their medical staff available, but players say that once illness strikes, team doctors and trainers treat their charges with the same basic techniques a school nurse would use to treat a class full of sick kids.
"We do all the things a school nurse used to do, but now instead of having to send a child to the ER or having Mom come and pick them up, we can treat them in the school-based health center, " says Chris Kjolhede, Bassett's school-based health program director.
The school nurse was Lucy's crucial advocate, never needing to be convinced of the seriousness of Davis's asthma, confident enough in her own judgment to intervene at the moment he needed it, rather than allowing him to suffer while she tried to find Lucy or fretfully sought out approval from some higher medical authority.
In County Durham one campaigning family are paying for a private nurse to inspect children at their local school.
She was a single mom who put herself through college and graduate school, and served as a nurse practitioner while raising her two daughters.
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Born in 1942 in Tredegar to a miner father and nurse mother, he attended Lewis Boys' School in nearby Pengam, known then as the "Eton of the valleys".
Women with metastatic cancer, which has spread beyond the breast and is more likely to be fatal, sometimes feel left out when the focus of awareness is on curable, small tumors, says Christopher Friese, an oncology nurse and assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Nursing.
Ever year before school starts, Rose meets with Adalyne's nurse, a member of the administration and all the educators she will be encountering -- from the art teacher to the librarian.
At school, new rules required her to go to the nurse for each dose of medicine during the day.
Thirty percent have one who works part-time -- often dividing her hours between multiple school buildings -- and a full 25 percent have no nurse at all.
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