Today is National School Nurse Day and a time when many are recognizing the 74,000 school nurses in the U.S. So, it’s a perfect time to take a look at the current landscape of school nurses.
Of course, we thank those make it their professional responsibility to take care of kids in school. There are a lot of great nurses out there who do wonders for our taking care of our D-Kids and make sure…
All eyes are on the U.S. Supreme Court, which just ruled today on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Everyone’s talking about this, and it’s apparently the most widely anticipated Court decision in memory, according to those in the know.
This is about insurance and our society’s desire to pay for well-being. Just one example of why this is so important comes from a study released in mid-June stating more than 26,000 working-age adults…
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Two more tough topics await in this week’s edition of our “curiously strong” diabetes advice column, Ask D’Mine — hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois.
Take a gander, and don’t forget to send us YOUR queries related to life with diabetes. Not much is off-limits here! (except of course specific medical instructions for your own care; that’s what doctors are for)
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We get a lot of emails from a wide variety of folks with diabetes, but when we received an email from a newly diagnosed Marine, we knew we needed to find out more about this guy! Nick Lozar is a captain currently stationed in Quantico, VA, where he lives with his wife and 2-year-old daughter. It was while stationed in Virginia that he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in October 2009, and recently joined…
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What happens if a state rules that ONLY NURSES can administer insulin to diabetic kids at school, but there are no more nurses?! This is currently the case in California, broke and cutting school budgets left and right. Now, a state appeals court has issued a ruling that finds state law means school staffers who are not trained nurses should not be allowed to give injections, under any circumstances.
A family in Pacifica, CA, writes…