Tami Hale: RN in WPS, parent in WPS
"it is my duty as a patient advocate to make sure you are aware...15 WPS are without a nurse for a good part of the day"
a child in school may well not have a nurse on hand
more than 4000 students with special healthcare needs
"do all that you can to be sure that all of our schools are staffed with a nurse all day every day"
Cathy Watterson: RN in WPS
having a school nurse in the building every day keeps the kids safe and learning
"not having a nurse in the building puts extra stress on staff and administration"
And because it's my blog, and because I agree with them, let me point out that full nursing would mean 5 additional nurses, which would cost $275,000. Plenty, but not much in the context of $333 million.
Nurses are one of the most essential workers of our society today. Aside from doctors they are the ones who are really helpful in times that we are truly sick and ill. However these men and women in medical scrubs though needed and necessary are set aside by some hospital administrations giving them late salaries and even small amount of salaries. Also some patients and people tend to discriminate and abused nurses.
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