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School Nursing Department
School Nursing Department
In the School Nursing Department, our mission is to ensure that every student is healthy, safe, and ready to learn. We provide more than just care in the moment; we coordinate support for students with ongoing health needs, connect families with resources, and collaborate closely with staff, counselors, and community partners.
Our nurses are leaders and advocates within the school community, promoting wellness, reducing health risks, and supporting equitable access to care. Through screenings, health education, and disease prevention efforts, we help students build the knowledge and confidence to manage their own health.
Above all, we are committed to fostering a safe, caring environment where students can thrive academically and personally, and where families know they have trusted partners in supporting their child’s well-being.
Nursing Staff
- District Coordinator of Nursing Services – Wendy Swallow BSN, RN
- GHS – Kevin Miller BSN, RN
- GJHS – Jackie Carowan BSN, RN
- GIS – Stephanie Hershberger BSN, RN, Leslie Latisnere BSN, RN
- Chamberlain – Teresa DeBoe BSN, RN
- Model – Tonya Harmelink BSN, RN
- Parkside – Christina Perez-Gipson BSN, RN
- Prairie View – Tonya Burgess BSN, RN
- Waterford – Jeff Vardaman BSN, RN
- West Goshen – Elizabeth Vukovich BSN, RN
- 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.
- Click here for more information on health-related resources in our community
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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.
- Click here for more information on health-related resources in our community