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Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN

Nationally Certified School Nurse,
Yorkship Elementary School
    

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School Safety from a School Nurse's Perspective: A Public Health Approach to Stemming Gun Violence

NASN’s vision is that all students are healthy, safe and ready to learn . Couched in between healthy and ready to learn is our most challenging charge as school nurses, keeping our students safe. Gun violence is now the number one leading cause of death in children and teens, surpassing motor ...

The Relentless School Nurse: The Future of Nursing 2030 Includes the Voice of School Nursing

Posted By Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN 06-04-2019 13:58
Found In Community: School Nurse Open Forum Blogs
The Future of Nursing 2030 is tasked with envisioning what nursing will become over the next decade. To be exact:  "This committee will extend the vision for the nursing profession into 2030 and it will chart a path for the nursing profession to help our nation create a culture of health, reduce health ...

The Relentless School Nurse: Amplify the Voice of School Nursing Through Blogging & Social Media

Posted By Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN 06-01-2019 09:01
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In July 2017, I took a blogging workshop at the NASN Conference in San Francisco with Margaret Cellucci, NASN's former Director of Communication. It was like a moon shot for me because it freed me to do something that I had hoped to do for years, become a blogger. The workshop was a nuts and bolts approach ...

The Relentless School Nurse: Kathy Reiner - Champion of Climate Justice

Posted By Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN 03-21-2019 12:34
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Kathy Reiner is a Colorado school nurse who champions climate justice. She is clear that the science is irrefutable and what is needed is immediate action. I learned of her passion for saving our planet through her tweets. Kathy showed me why climate change is an issue for school nurses. Follow  Kathy ...

The Relentless School Nurse: What Happened at School Today? - Liz Pray MSN-Ed RN NCSN

Posted By Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN 03-07-2019 05:56
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Welcome to a new feature on the Relentless School Nurse website : "What Happened at School Today?" The idea for this view from different health offices is the result of discussions with school nurses across the country who wanted to share their practice settings. Last year, Abby Pelletier   and ...

The Relentless School Nurse: Precepting Nursing's Future

Posted By Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN 02-21-2019 05:54
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Preceptorship is an opportunity that must not be underestimated.  As a nurse, one of our professional obligations is shepherding the next generation of nurses through their clinical training. It is an opportunity to model the heights of our profession, but it often dissolves into a much different experience ...

The Relentless School Nurse: Learn the Mission of Think-Feel-Do Sensory Bears

Posted By Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN 01-31-2019 05:57
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These bears are meant to be imperfectly perfect. In our house, they have been accepted for who they are, with their differences embraced and their TFD message is being shared with many people our children come into contact with. -Think.Feel.Do. This is the message that tugged at my heart when ...

The Relentless School Nurse: You Will Never Forget Brandy Bowlen's Initiative "From Seat to Feet"

Posted By Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN 01-24-2019 05:40
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Brandy Bowlen has transformed her school community by first taking a stand for her own health and well-being. This is not an easy feat for nurses. Eight years ago, when Brandy was a new school nurse, she found herself overwhelmed, overstressed and overweight. She became a warrior for self-care, connecting ...

The Relentless School Nurse: Introductions – How Relationships Begin!

Posted By Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN 01-17-2019 09:47
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My adventures in blogging began with a 2-hour workshop led by Margaret Cellucci, NASN Director of Communications. Margaret skillfully laid out an introduction to the world of blogging that literally changed the course of my school nursing practice. Through this workshop, an introduction to blogging rekindled ...

The Relentless School Nurse: Chris Amidon is "Not Throwing Away Her Shot"

Posted By Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN 01-10-2019 05:36
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Meet the incomparable Chris Amidon, BSN, RN, NCSN. We met on Twitter, connected by the power of purpose. Chris's profile got my attention because of the intentional way she described herself. Chris shared what she believed in , what an inspiring introduction. This is Chris's Twitter profile description: ...

The Relentless School Nurse: The Ripple Effect - When School Violence Comes to School

Posted By Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN 01-03-2019 13:09
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Elizabeth (Liz) Clark, MSN, RN NCSN is a school nurse's school nurse. Her leadership skills were honed as President of the CO Association of School Nurses. She served on the national level as the CO NASN Director, completing her term in 2017. Liz has a prominent presence on Twitter and uses the social ...

The Relentless School Nurse: Help Make ACEs its Own Topic in Healthy People 2030!

Posted By Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN 12-29-2018 09:26
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For the past four decades, the mission of the Department of Health and Human Services, Healthy People Initiative, was to present overarching, science-based health goals for the upcoming decade. Healthy People was launched in 1990, with a focus at that time of decreasing infant and adult mortality as ...

The Relentless School Nurse: Meet the Student & the Art Teacher Creating #NoMoreEmptyDesks

Posted By Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN 11-08-2018 07:32
Found In Community: School Nurse Open Forum Blogs
Meet Christian and his teacher Lisa Wallenburg Several months ago, Kendrea Todt, a nurse educator from Tennessee, responded to a post that I wrote on Twitter. It was about an article documenting the 26,000 school-aged children who have died by gun violence since 1999. Kendrea had a vision for ...

The Relentless School Nurse: Join Our #SchoolNurseChat on Twitter!

Posted By Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN 11-01-2018 06:40
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Great ideas can start with one Tweet! April 28, 2018,   Tonja Frank , aka School Nurse T sent this tweet asking “Who wants to have a #schoolnursechat? Let’s share our experiences. Who’s in?” It was a tweet heard through the Twittersphere and before we knew it, the #SchoolNurseChat was born. The original ...

The Relentless School Nurse: The Text Message No Parent Wants to Get - An Active Shooter is at School

Posted By Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN 10-04-2018 12:51
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Many blog readers know that my niece Carly is a survivor of the Parkland shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. You may know that my father also survived a mass murder, and like Carly, hid in a closet until the police arrived. Almost 70 years separated the two tragedies. Our guest blogger ...

The Relentless School Nurse: Parenting with High ACEs – Voices of Lived Expertise

Posted By Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN 09-29-2018 06:19
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Christine “Cissy” White is leading a movement to make sure that parents with high Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) scores have the resources and support they need to end the trend of generational trauma that so many have i nherited and unknowingly passed on to their children. The voice of the ...

The Relentless School Nurse: Full Disclosure - I am Fearful to Welcome Another September

Posted By Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN 09-02-2018 08:42
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School is about to begin and for the first time in my 18 years as a school nurse, I am fearful to welcome another September.  I work in an urban district where community gun violence is sadly commonplace, but that is not my fear. I travel throughout the city from school to school where drug dealing is ...

The Relentless School Nurse: Starting a Movement Through One Tweet #NoMoreEmptyDesks

Posted By Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN 08-23-2018 21:28
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A new movement was born out of a Tweet from a colleague that I have never met. The Empty Desk Project is the unofficial working name and our hashtag is #NoMoreEmptyDesks. We have a name, a plan to begin, and a vision for what we want to accomplish - all from a Tweet. Here is the message that began this ...

The Relentless School Nurse: A Back to School Message From Your School's Chief Wellness Officer - The School Nurse

Posted By Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN 08-16-2018 16:55
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The school nurse is your child’s Chief Wellness Officer! So first things first:  be sure your school has a school nurse in your child’s building every day. If not, there are 55 million reasons to have one. School nurses have access to 95% of our nation’s 55 million children every day, all day. We are ...

The Relentless School Nurse: School Nursing's Vital Role in the History of American Nursing

Posted By Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN 08-10-2018 09:47
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#NASNat50 The history of school nursing has not been studied enough in a formal, scholarly manner. We have been so busy "being" school nurses that we have not devoted sufficient time for institutional self-reflection. Developing the specialty practice of school nursing has been our primary focus for ...