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The Relentless School Nurse: When Grandparents Speak, the World Listens – A Conversation About Vaccines, Memory, and Love There’s a lot of noise right now about vaccines. You’ve seen the headlines, heard the debates, maybe even felt the uncertainty creeping into conversations at family dinners or in your d…

@gparents4vaccines.bsky.social is recruiting storytelling grandparents to share what childhood was like without vaccines. Any #Granfluencers who want to learn more about our grassroots movement!
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This blog post is a celebration of school nurses who were given an impossible task and turned it into something remarkable.
Let's be honest about what we ask of school nurses.
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The Relentless School Nurse: My Last Hill Day – A Reflection on Advocacy, Purpose, and the Work That Matters There is something powerful about walking the halls of Congress with a clear purpose, knowing exactly why you’re there and exactly who you’re fighting for. I’ve had the privilege of doing that year…

My last Hill Day as a #NASNDirector, bittersweet but always inspiring.
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Health care epidemic of misinformation is rooted in problem of trust, experts say | Medical Economics Physician communication can build trust and empower patients to make decisions based on fact, not social media claims.

So proud of @gparents4vaccines.bsky.social Executive Director Kim Boller for her impressive representation of the core work of GFV at @apha.org week in DC, celebrating Public Health Week: www.medicaleconomics.com/view/health-...
@medicaleconomics.bsky.social Bravo for an EXCELLENT article!

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💯 👇🏻👇🏻With the current attack on public health, school nurses are a last line of defense. Every school needs a School Nurse, they are not replaceable with an unlicensed aide.

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The Relentless School Nurse: The Most Pressing Issue in School Nursing Is Not What People Think If you ask school nurses what the most pressing issue in our profession is right now, you will hear many answers. Staffing shortages. Student mental health. Workload. Burnout. Documentation. Delega…

The Relentless School Nurse: The Most Pressing Issue in School Nursing Is Not What People Think
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The Relentless School Nurse: More Than a Spoonful of Sugar How a Sugar Cube, a Vaccine, and a Generation of Parents Helped End Polio There is a song that most of us can hear in our heads the moment we read the title. Julie Andrews, standing in the nursery …

The Relentless School Nurse: More Than a Spoonful of Sugar
How a Sugar Cube, a Vaccine, and a Generation of Parents Helped End Polio.
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The Relentless School Nurse: Grandparents for Vaccines Featured in Maria Shriver’s “Sunday Paper” Grandparents for Vaccines is featured in Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper in an article written by journalist Meghan Rabbitt titled They Remember a World Without Vaccines. I was interviewed for the a…

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@gparents4vaccines.bsky.social is featured in Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper in an article written by journalist Meghan Rabbitt titled They Remember a World Without Vaccines.
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Thank you to Jonathan and Sam for amplifying Grandparents for Vaccines as there are now 1518 measles cases across the US (measles was eliminated in 2000) Your coverage helps elevate trusted voices and reinforces the urgent need to protect children through MMR.
There Is Nothing Just About Measles!

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Super excited to share the article!

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Want to hear the scoop about what measles or polio was really like? Ask you grandparents because they lived through the time before vaccines were available.
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The Relentless School Nurse: Grandparents for Vaccines Featured in Maria Shriver’s “Sunday Paper” Grandparents for Vaccines is featured in Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper in an article written by journalist Meghan Rabbitt titled They Remember a World Without Vaccines. I was interviewed for the a…

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@gparents4vaccines.bsky.social is featured in Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper in an article written by journalist Meghan Rabbitt titled They Remember a World Without Vaccines.
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The Relentless School Nurse: Sustaining the Profession We Inherited We inherited a profession that other school nurses built.Now we are responsible for sustaining it. But that is not something most of us understand when we first become school nurses. Most of us…

The Relentless School Nurse: Sustaining the Profession We Inherited

We inherited a profession that other school nurses built.

Now we are responsible for sustaining it.

But that is not something most of us understand when we first become school nurses.

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Let me just say that I truly admire the legendary Bruce Springsteen. He’s an incredibly talented artist, an actual American patriot, a fighter for democracy and a good human being.

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The Relentless School Nurse: More Than a Spoonful of Sugar How a Sugar Cube, a Vaccine, and a Generation of Parents Helped End Polio There is a song that most of us can hear in our heads the moment we read the title. Julie Andrews, standing in the nursery …

The Relentless School Nurse: More Than a Spoonful of Sugar
How a Sugar Cube, a Vaccine, and a Generation of Parents Helped End Polio.
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The Relentless School Nurse: The Most Pressing Issue in School Nursing Is Not What People Think If you ask school nurses what the most pressing issue in our profession is right now, you will hear many answers. Staffing shortages. Student mental health. Workload. Burnout. Documentation. Delega…

The Relentless School Nurse: The Most Pressing Issue in School Nursing Is Not What People Think
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Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

"You have elected to take a job where the primary purpose is for you to eat shit and own the death of broadcast TV news, a thing that is going to die no matter what you do. Nice work!"

Read more of @lopatto.bsky.social's prophecy from October 2025:

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Every Accusation is a Confession….

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The Relentless School Nurse: There is Nothing “Just” About Measles I encourage readers to listen to the Bulwark podcast episode, “Just Measles” Left Her Sister Disabled for Life. The podcast, along with the accompanying article, Meet the Horrified Grandparents Fig…

I am a member of @gparents4vaccines.bsky.social & I encourage you to listen @thebulwark.com podcast “Just Measles” Left Her Sister Disabled for Life.” Thank you, @samsteindc.bsky.social & @citizencohn.bsky.social phenomenal episode! @nurseteria.bsky.social
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The Relentless School Nurse: Experience Is Not the End of the Story: It is the Part We Carry Forward As I write this, retirement is beginning to come into view after decades in nursing and school health. If all goes as planned, I expect to step away from my daily work at the start of 2027. Retirem…

As retirement begins to come into view for me in 2027, I’ve been reflecting on voice, experience, and the responsibility to stay engaged.

Experience is not the end of the story.
It is the part we carry forward.

New essay:
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The Relentless School Nurse: When the Healer Is Inside the Story – A Nurse’s Experience of the California Wildfires The New Jersey Collaborating Center for Nursing (NJCCN) – the nursing workforce center for NJ – presents the Nursing Insights podcast.Author’s Note: Before listening to Donna Gaffney’s …

@donnagaffney.bsky.social reflects on what it meant to find herself living through the January 2025 California wildfires after spending much of her professional life helping others navigate trauma in this compelling #NJCCN podcast.
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The Relentless School Nurse: When the Healer Is Inside the Story – A Nurse’s Experience of the California Wildfires The New Jersey Collaborating Center for Nursing (NJCCN) – the nursing workforce center for NJ – presents the Nursing Insights podcast.Author’s Note: Before listening to Donna Gaffney’s …

@donnagaffney.bsky.social reflects on what it meant to find herself living through the January 2025 California wildfires after spending much of her professional life helping others navigate trauma in this compelling #NJCCN podcast.
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They cut Meals on Wheels for seniors, doctors for the VA, and food for American children - but send billions of taxpayer dollars to the Middle East for an unnecessary war of choice.

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@meghanrabbitt.bsky.social Your new book is a lifeline for women across the lifespan. Thank you for devoting 3 years & hundreds of interviews to bring a completely new dimension to women's health.

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The costs of this Iran war debacle will likely be more than the cost of extending the ACA health insurance subsidies.

If you asked Americans, which do you want: another war in the Middle East or lower health care costs at home, is the margin 90 to 10? 95 to 5?

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Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments The FDA has taken down a webpage warning about therapies and products making “false claims” of treating autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

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The Relentless School Nurse: Sharing My Guest Editorial The Relentless School Nurse: Sharing My Guest Editorial in NASN School Nurse NASN School Nurse is the clinical journal of NASN.

Sharing my guest editorial in NASN School Nurse.
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The Relentless School Nurse: The Fourth Branch of Government Is the People The Op-Ed Nurses, Donna Gaffney and Teri Mills, skillfully crafted another Op-Ed, offering a framing that feels both clarifying and deeply necessary. We are all familiar with the structure of Ameri…

Vile & disgusting morons ruining our country. I know we will somehow see our way through this, but it will take momentum from "We the People." New OpEd to share from @nurseteria.bsky.social & @donnagaffney.bsky.social, the OpEd Nurses.

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DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions.

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