School Nursing Department
School Nursing Department
Nurses
Nursing Staff
District Coordinator of Nursing Services – Wendy Swallow BSN, RN
Goshen High School – Kevin Miller BSN, RN
Goshen Junior High School – Jackie Carowan BSN, RN
Goshen Intermediate School – Stephanie Hershberger BSN, RN, Leslie Latisnere BSN, RN
Chamberlain Elementary – Teresa DeBoe BSN, RN
Model Elementary– Tonya Harmelink BSN, RN
Parkside Elementary – Christina Perez-Gipson BSN, RN
Prairie View Elementary – Tonya Burgess BSN, RN
Resources
National Suicide Prevention Hotline # – 988
Línea Nacional de Prevención del Suicidio – 988
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- Increase Student Attendance – Health Promotion, Disease Prevention, and Disease Management improve student attendance
- Increase Academic Performance – Improved attendance then increases student achievement and graduation rates.
- Increase Instructional Time – Teachers, Principals, and Staff can focus on teaching and serving students.
- Major Cost Benefit
- Increase Teacher/Staff Productivity
- Decrease Parent loss of workdays
- Decrease unnecessary medical care costs
- Get at least 8 hours of sleep at night
- Eat a healthy breakfast
- Wear clothes appropriate for the weather
- Carry a backpack on both shoulders; don’t carry more than 30% of your weight
- Wash hands frequently – before eating, after using the bathroom, after coughing or blowing your nose.
- Drink plenty of water every day and avoid soda and sugary drinks.
- Goshen Community Schools employs a coordinated school health program to help ensure the mental and physical health and wellness of students, staff, and the Goshen community. We have recently approved an updated Wellness Policy based on the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model (WSCC) as established by ASCD and the CDC.
- Goshen Community School’s Coordinated School Health Committee supports student achievement by implementing this model to promote student and staff health, safety, and wellness.
- The Coordinated School Health Committee meets every other month to create, implement, monitor and evaluate wellness initiatives throughout our schools.
- Healthy kids make better students. Better students make healthy communities.
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- Increase Student Attendance – Health Promotion, Disease Prevention, and Disease Management improve student attendance
- Increase Academic Performance – Improved attendance then increases student achievement and graduation rates.
- Increase Instructional Time – Teachers, Principals, and Staff can focus on teaching and serving students.
- Major Cost Benefit
- Increase Teacher/Staff Productivity
- Decrease Parent loss of workdays
- Decrease unnecessary medical care costs
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- Get at least 8 hours of sleep at night
- Eat a healthy breakfast
- Wear clothes appropriate for the weather
- Carry a backpack on both shoulders; don’t carry more than 30% of your weight
- Wash hands frequently – before eating, after using the bathroom, after coughing or blowing your nose.
- Drink plenty of water every day and avoid soda and sugary drinks.
-
- Goshen Community Schools employs a coordinated school health program to help ensure the mental and physical health and wellness of students, staff, and the Goshen community. We have recently approved an updated Wellness Policy based on the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model (WSCC) as established by ASCD and the CDC.
- Goshen Community School’s Coordinated School Health Committee supports student achievement by implementing this model to promote student and staff health, safety, and wellness.
- The Coordinated School Health Committee meets every other month to create, implement, monitor and evaluate wellness initiatives throughout our schools.
- Healthy kids make better students. Better students make healthy communities.