"You cannot educate an unhealthy child and you cannot keep an uneducated child healthy....." Dr. Jocelyn Elder.
Welcome to Plymouth South High School Health Service Home Page Located in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
School Nursing is a specialized practice of professional nursing that advances the well-being, academic success, and life-long achievement of students period. To that end, school nurses facilitate positive student responses to normal development; promotes health and safety; intervenes with actual and potential health problems; provides case management services; and actively collaborates with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self management,self-advocacy, and learning. (Journal of School Nursing, August 1999.)
Meet your School Nurses:
Rhonda Messier, RN., BSN. Technical Studies Nurse.
Telephone # 508-224-7753. Fax # 508-224-9532
E-mail: rmessier@plymouth.k12.ma.us
Catherine Crosby-Norton RN., BSN. Academic Nurse.
Telephone # 508-224-7512, Ext, 2071. Fax # 508-224-7896
E-mail: ccrosbynorton@plymouth.k12.ma.us
Christine Lopes, Health Aide
E-mail: clopes@plymouth.k12.ma.us