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Brenna Huckfeldt has taken over as the school nurse for the Hot Springs County School District.

Huckfeldt was born and raised in Denver. She attended the University of Northern Colorado for two years before she transferred to the University of Wyoming. In 2007, she graduated with a degree in kinesiology and health promotion with an emphasis on exercise physiology.

After graduating, Huckfeldt said she started nursing school in the fall and graduated in 2009.

She spent her first year after college working for Ivinson Memorial Hospital before her family moved to Thermopolis for her husband's job.

Huckfeldt, her husband and their two children have lived in Thermopolis for six years.

She said she worked at the hospital for two years, then Red Rock Family Practice for a year. For the last three years, she has worked for Public Health as the maternal child health nurse.

School nursing is something that Huckfeldt said she had always want to do.

"I thought, 'I want to do that. That would be such an amazing and fun job to work with kids,'" she said.

When the job opportunity presented itself, Huckfeldt said she had to go for it.

She said she is looking forward to being able to help the kids and keep them in school.

"The school nurse is usually the go-to caregiver," she said. "Kids come to the office for TLC. They can say, 'She really cared for me and that really made an impact on me to want to go into healthcare or to just be a caring person.' Hopefully, I can help kids become that."

Huckfeldt said she has a feeling that she will now have more than two kids.

"Now I'm going to have the whole school district," she said. "I care for them just like I care for my own kids. They're away from home for eight hours a day. I can give them that little nudge they need to go back to the classroom and learn."

 

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