School Nurses And The Pandemic

Submitted by Judy Hanning on Tue, 2020-09-15 13:00
There are five things that school nurses want parents to understand about schooling during the coronavirus pandemic. There are millions of kids returning to schools and that means a ton of nurses are going back to work as well. Before the pandemic, there were not a lot of school nurses. Fewer than forty percent of schools had a nurse that worked there full time. Nurses have been working hard all summer getting ready for students to return.

What School Nurses Want You To Know

In many schools, students should expect to be seated at a social distance outside the nurse's clinic while waiting for an assessment.

Key Takeaways:

1
School nurses have been tasked with much more work now because of the virus.
2
A quarter of schools in the United States did not have a nurse before the pandemic.
3
Being a school nurse is a lot more important than some people think.
Read the full article here:
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Wellness/things-school-nurses-parents-school-coronavirus-pandemic/story?id=72473098