Tag: Trauma-Informed Care
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The Limits of Delegated Care
Seizure Safety, School Nursing, and the Gap Between Policy and Practice Michigan’s Seizure Safe Schools legislation is an important step forward. The legislation focuses on seizure recognition training, individualized seizure action plans, emergency medication administration, and legal protections for those responding to students with epilepsy. These are meaningful protections, and increasing seizure education in schools…
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A Reflection on Resilience: Understanding Tulip Skin and the Journey to “Holland”
I recently finished Tulip Skin by Laura Sánchez, and it was exceptional. What resonated with me most was not just the resilience woven throughout the autobiography, but the way she wrote about motherhood, birth, and survival with such artesanal softness and brutal honesty. As she worked through the moments surrounding both of her children’s births, I found…
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When a Mother Isn’t Trusted: Parent Experience in the NICU
By that point in the NICU, my daughter was more stable, but we were in the part that lingers—the feeding, the waiting, the slow stretch before discharge. I had been changing her, holding her, and learning her cues. Not perfectly, but consistently. I wasn’t new to it anymore. One day, I was in the middle…
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Between Critical Care and Daily Life
I created something I wish existed when I was first navigating my daughter’s diagnosis. As a parent, I’ve lived through both ends of the NICU spectrum—including a severe HIE course and the uncertainty that follows when the hospital stay ends but the questions don’t. There’s so much clinical knowledge in those moments. But very little…