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Overloaded fitness specialists are on the front line when schools reopen.
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School nurses were already few in the United States, with less than 40% of schools employing full-time schools before the pandemic. Now, these overburdened fitness specialists are at the forefront of a risky and important public fitness coverage experiment as districts reopen amid an increase in the number of cases in many parts of the country.
The American Pediatrics Association recommends that each school have a nurse on site. But before the epidemic, according to the National Association of School Nurses, a quarter of U.S. schools. They didn’t have any. And there has been no national effort to provide districts with new resources to rent them, some states have used federal aid funds.
Washington state is one of the places where nurses are scarce in school hallways, with only 7% of schools employing a full-time school and only about 30% of districts have one for six hours or less during the week. As a single nurse in her school district in downtown Washington, Janna Benzel will monitor 1,800 students for symptoms of the virus when study rooms open later this month, in addition to their general day-to-day work, such as managing allergies, distributing medications, and writing a lot of immunizations. Plans.
“I’m going to have to move on to those schools and compare each and every sneezing and sniffing that could be a positive case,” he says. “I don’t know if I can do it alone.”
In some places, principals strive to recruit more nurses for schools before the school year. New York, the largest district in the country and one of the few primary cities in the country that still plans to physically reopen its schools on the first day of its return, introduced a recruitment frenzy after the city’s tough tevery oneers union said its members were not going. return to the study rooms without a nurse in each of the city’s roughly 1,300 school buildings.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said last week that the city, however, had garnered enough nurses to meet that demand, less than a month before the planned start of face-to-face teaching.
“It’s strange that a pandemic is required for other people to think, ‘Oh, look at this, what you’re doing is helpful,'” said Tara Norvez, a school nurse in Queens. Ms. Norvez said she was looking ahead for the start of the school year, provided there are enough non-public protective devices and other protective measures in place.
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