003. An Interview with School Nurse Activist Robin Cogan

This episode is a supplement to the guest editorial, “Why I Became a Nurse Activist,” authored by Ms. Robin Cogan and published in the March April 2018 issue of Nursing Economic$.

In this episode, Ms. Cogan speaks of her family’s experience with gun violence. She provides a powerful message about the impact of gun violence in our schools, how the ongoing threat weighs on kids in the United States, the traumatic effect it has when a mass school shooting hits close to home, and what nurses can do to help put a stop to it.

Robin Cogan is a School Nurse in the Camden School District in New Jersey and Adjunct Faculty, Rutgers University School of Nursing, in Camden, New Jersey.

Randelle Sasa is an Assistant Professor of Nursing at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York, and a Ph.D. doctoral nursing candidate at The Graduate Center of the City of New York.

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