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School Nurse • Educator • Advocate • TEDx Speaker Nov 2026 • Author of Knock (coming soon)• Stories about the moments that shape us, from school hallways to kitchen tables and the quiet barriers we don't always see.❤️ Human
Connection is the intervention.

11/04/2026

You cannot punish away poverty. And you cannot fix a family in crisis with another attendance letter. Somewhere along the way, we’ve started treating chronic absenteeism as though every empty desk represents a family that doesn’t care or a child who simply refuses to come to school. But what if we’re missing the bigger picture? Behind that empty desk may be homelessness, anxiety, transportation challenges, medical needs, or a family doing everything they can just to get through the day. I’ve spent years working with students who struggle to attend school, and I can tell you that sometimes the most important information isn’t found in an attendance report. It’s found in a conversation, a phone call, or a knock on someone’s door. Attendance matters. Accountability matters. But understanding the barriers matters just as much. We need to stop expecting consequences alone to solve problems that require connection, resources, and support. Imagine what could happen if we approached chronic absenteeism with curiosity before judgment. If we invested as much energy into understanding why students aren’t coming as we do tracking how often they’re gone. This is a conversation we need to be having across the country. Before another warning letter, ask another question. Absence is a signal. Connection is the intervention. What is your school doing to address the reasons behind chronic absenteeism? 🩷

11/03/2026

A CHILD’S SAFETY SHOULD NOT DEPEND ON WHO HAPPENS TO BE WORKING THAT DAY! We have emergency plans, policies, procedures, and binders full of information. But here’s my question. DO OUR STAFF ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT TO DO WHEN AN EMERGENCY HAPPENS? What happens when the school nurse is covering another campus? When a teacher is absent? When the trained staff member has left the district? An emergency doesn’t wait for the right person to show up! This is why we need to stop confusing having a policy with being prepared. Teachers, nurses, administrators, and classified staff deserve meaningful training, clear expectations, practice, and the resources to respond confidently. We cannot continue placing enormous responsibilities on school employees without building systems that support them. A POLICY IS NOT PREPAREDNESS. A BINDER IS NOT TRAINING. AND HOPE IS NOT AN EMERGENCY PLAN! This needs to be a national conversation about student safety, staffing, emergency preparedness, and accountability at every level. Our students deserve safe schools. Our staff deserve the tools to make that possible. We cannot prevent every emergency, but we can do more to prepare for them. What happens at YOUR school when the person who usually handles an emergency isn’t there? 🩷

11/01/2026

Be safe 🩷🎃👻

10/31/2026

20,000 VIEWS AND THE CONVERSATION IS JUST GETTING STARTED! 🩷 Let me make something VERY clear. I stand with our teachers. I stand with our school nurses. I stand with administrators who are navigating impossible decisions and classified staff who are often the GLUE holding our schools together! But standing with our educators does NOT mean staying silent about systems that desperately need to change. We are asking schools to meet increasingly complex medical, behavioral, emotional, and educational needs without consistently providing the staffing, training, resources, and support necessary to do it. School nurses stretched across multiple campuses. Teachers carrying enormous responsibilities. Classified staff stepping up every single day. Administrators trying to make impossible budgets work. AND OUR CHILDREN ARE AT THE CENTER OF IT ALL! Children like Adrian remind us just how precious every single life is and why preparedness, education, and strong systems matter. We owe it to every student to ask difficult questions and demand meaningful conversations about school safety and support. I don’t pretend to have all the answers. But I KNOW silence isn’t one of them! We need to examine school nursing staffing, emergency preparedness, funding, training, and the policies shaping what happens inside our schools. This conversation must reach beyond individual classrooms, campuses, and districts. IT NEEDS TO REACH THE NATIONAL LEVEL! We can celebrate the incredible people working in education AND demand better systems to support them. BOTH THINGS CAN BE TRUE! To every educator, nurse, classified employee, and administrator who shows up for kids every day, I SEE YOU. And to every parent who entrusts us with their child, YOU DESERVE TO KNOW WE ARE ADVOCATING FOR SAFER SCHOOLS. Let’s stop accepting the status quo and start asking what needs to change. Our students deserve better. Our staff deserve better. And together, we MUST do better. What needs to change in YOUR state? #

10/30/2026

Cheer moms are a special kind of crazy! One minute we’re crying watching our girls perform, the next we’re making last-minute swag bags, fixing bows, running on caffeine, and hearing Justin Bieber’s “Baby” in our sleep for the 100th time! Wouldn’t trade the chaos for anything! Cheer moms, you get it! 🩷

10/30/2026

OUR SCHOOLS ARE NOT BUILT FOR TODAY’S KIDS! And it’s time we had a NATIONAL conversation about it! We have students with increasingly complex medical, emotional, behavioral, and educational needs walking into our schools every single day. Diabetes. Seizure disorders. Severe allergies. Asthma. Mental health crises. Medically fragile students. And yet, we’re still expecting teachers, school nurses, and support staff to manage it ALL without consistently providing the staffing, training, resources, or systems they need to succeed. LET THAT SINK IN. We keep adding responsibilities without adding resources. We expect teachers to teach AND recognize medical emergencies. We expect school nurses to manage complex healthcare needs, train staff, respond to emergencies, and somehow be everywhere at once! And when something goes wrong, we immediately start looking for someone to blame instead of examining the SYSTEMS that failed to provide adequate support. THIS IS NOT SUSTAINABLE! Our students have changed. Their needs have evolved. OUR SYSTEMS MUST EVOLVE TOO! We need national conversations about school nursing ratios, emergency preparedness, healthcare training, funding, and meaningful support for educators. This isn’t about asking for less accountability. It’s about demanding MORE support to meet the expectations we’re placing on schools. We cannot keep expecting 2026 student needs to be met with outdated systems and inadequate resources. Teachers deserve better. Nurses deserve better. OUR STUDENTS DESERVE BETTER! School nurses, teachers, administrators, and parents across America, I want to hear from YOU. What is the biggest gap you’re seeing in your school? Let’s turn this conversation into ACTION. 🩷

10/29/2026

LET’S TALK ABOUT ACCOUNTABILITY IN NURSING! Somewhere along the way, we’ve confused accountability with publicly attacking nurses before we have all the facts. And quite frankly, we need to talk about it! I am unapologetically PRO-NURSE. But I am also PRO-STUDENT, PRO-PATIENT, and PRO-SAFETY. Those things are NOT mutually exclusive! We can demand safe, competent care while recognizing that nurses are often working in systems with staffing shortages, inadequate resources, limited training, and overwhelming responsibilities. Accountability matters. But so does fairness. So does due process. So does understanding the entire picture before passing judgment. Supporting nurses does NOT mean ignoring mistakes, and advocating for students does NOT mean attacking the nursing profession. BOTH THINGS CAN BE TRUE! We should be able to stand behind our nurses while standing up for the students and patients entrusted to their care. Because accountability without fairness becomes punishment, and advocacy without accountability becomes protectionism. Neither one improves safety. We need to stop making this about choosing sides and start having conversations that lead to safer systems, stronger professionals, and better outcomes. I’m curious, fellow nurses and educators, when did advocating for accountability become synonymous with attacking our profession? 💗

10/28/2026

THIS SHOULD BE A NATIONAL WAKE-UP CALL. We have made tremendous strides in sudden cardiac arrest awareness, CPR education, and AED initiatives in our schools. SO WHY AREN’T WE HAVING THE SAME NATIONAL CONVERSATION ABOUT CHOKING RESPONSE TRAINING? Every day, millions of children eat in school cafeterias, classrooms, and on playgrounds. They laugh, talk, wiggle, move around, and play. They’re CHILDREN! But here’s the question I cannot stop asking. How many adults supervising those children have actually been trained to recognize a choking emergency? How many know the difference between gagging, coughing, and a child who cannot breathe? How many have practiced what to do when seconds matter? Teachers. Cafeteria workers. Aides. Yard supervisors. Coaches. Administrators. This is bigger than the school nurse’s office. We have to stop assuming that common sense is enough in a medical emergency. Education matters. Recognition matters. TRAINING MATTERS. We need to teach students how to recognize when a friend is struggling and immediately get help. We need adults who have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to recognize an emergency and act. Our schools have worked to make AED awareness and cardiac emergency response part of the safety conversation. It’s time to bring that same energy to choking recognition and response. Not just a handout. Not just a policy sitting in a binder. Meaningful education, hands-on training, and practice. I want school nurses, teachers, administrators, parents, professional organizations, and policymakers across the country asking one simple question: ARE WE DOING ENOUGH TO PREPARE EVERY ADULT WHO CARES FOR OUR CHILDREN? We cannot prevent every emergency. But we can work to ensure more people are prepared when one happens. This needs to be a NATIONAL conversation. And it needs to start NOW. 💗

10/27/2026

School nurses, let’s talk about DELEGATION.
Especially when it comes to diabetes management.
Just because you’ve trained someone to perform a task doesn’t mean your responsibility ends there. Delegation is NOT a free pass to walk away and never follow up again. Did you verify competency? Are you checking in? Are care plans current? Are staff comfortable responding when something goes wrong? Are you documenting your oversight? And here’s the big one: Have you actually reviewed your state’s Nurse Practice Act and applicable school health laws? Because what is permitted in one state may not be permitted in another.
Delegation can be a valuable part of supporting students with diabetes, but it requires communication, appropriate supervision, evaluation, and follow-through. At the end of the day, your nursing license and professional accountability matter.
You can delegate a task. You cannot delegate away accountability. School nurses, how are YOU managing follow-up after delegation?

10/26/2026

My heart breaks for Adrian, her family, and everyone impacted by this tragedy. 💔 I cannot imagine the weight everyone involved is carrying. My message isn’t about blame. It’s about awareness, education, and making sure we are reaching every staff member AND every student. Kids laugh, play, talk, stand, and move while eating. Choking can happen in seconds, and recognizing the signs matters. We need to teach children how to recognize when a friend is struggling, how to alert an adult immediately, and why asking “Are you choking?” can be such an important first step when someone appears to be in distress. We also need to ask ourselves: Are we providing enough training? Are we reaching cafeteria staff, teachers, aides, coaches, and students? Are we practicing what to do before an emergency happens? This tragedy deserves more than headlines. It deserves conversations, education, compassion, and action. This isn’t about pointing fingers. It’s about making sure more hands know how to help.

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