Real school nursing, built for microschools
Small schools face the same questions, challenges, and choices of larger schools- allergies, medications, emergencies- but without a big school’s staff or budget to address them. In our first five years, one of The Accord School’s biggest challenges was meeting the health and wellness needs of our small student body without a dedicated nurse’s expertise. We have built Nurse Nancy Consulting so that other microschools don’t experience this extra layer of stress.
Nancy Cooney has been the nurse Accord families have trusted for years. Now, her training, planning, and judgment that keeps Accord safe is available to your microschool, too.
A dedicated nurse is out of reach for most small schools. That doesn’t mean there is no need.
Every school has the same critical questions to answer:
What is an Individualized Health Plan? Who writes one? Who needs one?
What if a student has a severe allergic reaction? Who is trained to give an EpiPen?
What is our actual plan for the day a student or staff member needs to go to the hospital?
For a large school, the answer is a health office, staffed by a full-time nurse. For a microschool, the math rarely works- the need for medical judgment doesn’t shrink with enrollment, but the hiring budget does.
Most small schools end up choosing between two options that both fall short: piecing together policies from online templates, or going without a real plan and hoping nothing happens. Neither holds up when the unexpected comes up.
Nancy Cooney, RN has run health services at The Accord School, an AISNE accredited school, for years. She has put thought and care into every plan, training, and policy she built for Accord- and she will do the same for your microschool.
Nancy works with your school to create:
Health & Safety Manual- written specifically for your school, not retrofitted from a generic boilerplate.
Emergency Response Plans- written so your staff can actually understand and carry out- not just paperwork in a binder.
Individual Health Plans- for students who need them, with real staff training behind every one.
Allergy, Medication, and Emergency Training- the kind your staff will remember when it matters.
A nurse’s judgment without a nurse’s salary.
Three Ways to Get Started.
Every plan is built around your school. Start where you are, and grow as you’re ready.
ESSENTIALS PACKAGE
The critical safety foundation- emergency planning, documentation, and core training.
COMPLETE PACKAGE
Everything in Essentials, plus a full personalized health manual and off-site risk planning.
PARTNERSHIP PACKAGE
Everything in Complete, plus personalized, ongoing support for a full year.
Why Accord Built This
We know that microschools work hard to do the important things really well. We struggled to build our own health program the hard way, over several years- we understood that our students deserved real care, not a shortcut. We want to help microschools just like us skip the struggle and get right to supporting students well.
We aren’t simply handing you a template. It's Nancy's clinical knowledge, her experience, and her judgment- applied to your unique school.
Let’s talk about what your school actually needs.
Every small school is different, and every year is different. Some schools need a full health manual and ongoing support. Others just need help planning for one student's care. We'll figure out together what's right for you.
We also know that at a small school, every dollar has somewhere specific to go- there's no room for "extras."
Let's work together to ensure student health at your microschool is an accessible, affordable part of your programming, because student safety is never really an extra.