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Dear School Nurses,   This is our fourth and final week to connect and discuss Mind-Body Medicine. If you have enjoyed these practices, I encourage you to keep practicing them, share them with co-workers and students, and learn more about them and others here . I have no affiliation with the ...

Dear School Nurses,   Welcome back to another installment of Mind-Body Medicine skills for school nurses. You face challenges every day. What if you could escape to a safe place or have a wise companion with whom you could discuss dilemmas and life’s troubles? Those ways of approaching stress ...

Dear School Nurses,   School nursing can be incredibly stressful. I hope you have taken many opportunities this past week to engage in soft belly breathing to relieve and cope with stress. It is free, doesn’t require any fancy equipment, and can be done anywhere (well, maybe not while driving if ...

Fight.   Flight.   Freeze.   How do you respond when you reach the point of “stressed out”? Do you ever feel a disconnect between your brain and your body during these moments?   As school nurses, you experience eustress (good stress), distress (bad stress), hypostress (low stress), ...

Flipping the Classroom and Other Strategies to Creating Effective Trainings This blog post provides information about the breakout session on Saturday, July 2, 2016 at NASN2016. Have you ever wondered why staff so quickly forgets what they have been trained to do? How can you create ...