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Nurse Shortage Even Impacting Schools

Posted by: Robert Markette
December 15, 2005

I read an interesting article in yesterday's USA Today, "Nurse Shortage Puts School Kids at Risk", December 14, 2005.  The article does not have anything to do with home or hospice care, but it does show that the nursing shortage has a much wider reach.  It describes how the nursing shortage is even causing problems for schools.  According to the article, schools cannot find enough nurses to fill all the school nurse positions.  The story recounts the number of incidents and even deaths that have resulted from the lack of school nurses.  In some cases, a school nurse serves two or three schools and may actually be at one school when an issue arises at another.
 
For those of you with school age children, especially children with any kind of health concern such as diabetes or asthma, this article is a real eye opener.  Does your school have a nurse on duty at all times?  This may not be as wide ranging a problem as the article implies, but it may not hurt to ask.  If not, you should teach your children what to do if they have a specific healt concern, such as asthma that flares up when they are at school. 
        

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