Student First Aid News

School Nurse Emergency Highlight - Unconscious

A school’s duty of care to its students ensures school staff provides full medical care in response to unpredictable injury or illness, particularly if a student is unconscious. Unconscious Check...

Update: Anaphylaxis Management In Schools

The Royal Children’s Hospital and ASCIA now recommend that Victorian schools include student’s name and ASCIA Action Plan with each Adrenaline Autoinjector Pouch. It is now recommended that: Adrenaline Autoinjectors...

University Students Sleep Rough For Night

University of Southern Queensland students slept on the streets recently all in the name of supporting vulnerable homeless children and young people. Sleeping rough, and associated mental and physical health...

Students Win Kennedy Space Centre Innovation Co...

Four students from St John’s Anglican College at Forest Lake in Brisbane beat 100 ­finalists to become the first Australians to win a prize at the prestigious Conrad ­Spirit of...

A Day In The Life Of School Nurse Angie York

Angie York is a School Nurse at Shawnee Mission South High School located in Overland Park, Kansas. She takes care almost 1,600 students. What’s the first thing you do each...

School Nurse Overheard - Cats!!

Student: My head hurts! School Nurse: Is it a headache? Student: Yes! School Nurse: Can you describe what it feels like? Student: It feels just like somebody hit me with...