Student First Aid News

School Nurse Emergency Highlight - Stroke

According to the National Stroke Foundation, the rates of stroke in young people are on the increase largely due to poor control of lifestyle factors. The rates of stroke in...

Melbourne Students Suffer In Silence

Melbourne students recently sniffled and sneezed their way through the worst hay fever day of the year. Pollen levels were classed as extreme at 154 grass grains per cubic metre...

Thousands Of West Australian Students Skip HPV ...

The West Australian State Government has sounded the alarm at thousands of WA teenagers missing out on cancer protection because they are not completing their full course of the Human...

Melbourne Girls Grammar’s New Artemis Wellbeing...

Melbourne Girls Grammar is in the final stages of the largest construction project in its history. The Weekly Times reported that the new Artemis Wellbeing Centre, due to open next...

A Day In The Life Of School Nurse Sheila Caldwell

School Nurse Sheila Caldwell is a member of the New Jersey State School Nurses Association and National Association of School Nurse in the US. What would most people be surprised...

School Nurse Overheard - Squirty!

School Nurse: Does your tummy hurt? Student: It aches! School Nurse: Have you any nausea and or diarrhoea with the tummy ache? Student: I sure have - the squirty kind!...