The School Nurse Unfiltered

09/02/2026

Language barriers can change everything. How are you making sure families truly understand? 🩷

09/02/2026

A student is repeatedly eating things that aren’t food… paper, erasers, classroom materials. 🤔 They otherwise look well. Where does your nurse brain go? What are you assessing, what questions are you asking, and what could be hiding underneath this “strange behavior”? 👇

09/02/2026

09/01/2026

I finally get to say it. ❤️🎤 November 21, 2026. TEDxWilmington. School nursing, education, KNOCK and human connection all collide in a message that means so much to me. I’m keeping the actual talk close for now…but I cannot believe I get to take a piece of this work to the TEDx stage. Excited. Nervous. Grateful. And definitely a little terrified. 😂❤️

09/01/2026

What’s really in that pre-workout? 👀 One more question can completely change your assessment.

09/01/2026

I’m convinced there is some kind of voodoo magic happening in the McDonald’s Diet Coke machine because WHY does it taste so much better?! 🤣🥤 I don’t make the rules.

08/31/2026

Shout out to my newest followers! Excited to have you onboard!

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08/31/2026

The world moves on. People return to work, dinners get made, texts get answered, and eventually there’s almost a collective sigh of relief that life is getting back to “normal.” But for the person grieving, moving forward doesn’t mean the grief disappeared. Life simply learned to exist alongside it. 🩷

08/31/2026

A student comes in with a headache and fever… now what? What are you asking? What are you assessing? What findings would change your level of concern? And at what point does this become more than a call home? Tell me what your nursing brain is thinking. 👇

08/30/2026

Okay, I have thoughts… about love the second time around. 🩷 The beauty of finding someone again, but also the reality that neither of you arrives without a history. There’s baggage. Expectations. Kids. Old hurts. Different ways of doing things. And sometimes your brain even calls your husband by your late husband’s name. 🤦🏻‍♀️Second love isn’t a clean slate. It’s learning how to build something new while respecting everything that came before it. It can be complicated, messy, funny and incredibly beautiful. Anyone else navigating love the second time around? 🩷