It’s a rare day when Melissa Lassen doesn’t get a phone call or email from someone trying to recruit her away from school nursing. “I don’t even know how they get my name,” said Lassen, lead school ...

Apr. 15—The ever-expanding duties of school nurses, pushed into the spotlight during the pandemic, create a demand for their services that is tough to meet in the midst of a statewide nursing shortage ...

During the past two school years, teacher Julia Keyse had to enforce an unusual rule in her kindergarten and first-grade classroom: No interrupting while she pricked Caylee's finger to check her blood ...

Students who exhibit symptoms of COVID-19 are placed in this bathroom that has been turned into an isolation room at South Ogden Junior High School. As the Davis School District is lauded for being ...

Like other health care providers, school nurses are on the front lines of the pandemic, as they treat students who may be infected with the coronavirus and interact with public health officials to ...

For school nurse Alyssa Kidder, the COVID-19 pandemic has added many new responsibilities, at it has with other staff members throughout West Valley High School. “It feels like a whole ’nother job to ...

School nurses in Las Vegas get $10,000 bonuses to handle COVID-19 duties Clark County School District nurse Megan Ryan speaks to media during a walk-through of a drive-thru COVID-19 test site at The ...

Last September, as Covid-19 vaccine candidates were rapidly advancing, Katherine Park and six of her fellow school nurses in St. Louis County, Mo., envisioned school-based vaccination sites as an ...

With school slated to reopen next week on a hybrid schedule of in-person and remote learning, Wallkill Valley Regional High School nurse Sandra Lenze will be tasked with closely monitoring nearly 575 ...

As Alabama schools reopen, medical experts say it’s a matter of when, not if, before students and staff bring COVID-19 into schools. The first handful of systems just began to reopen last week.

To reach the recommended ratio of 750 students to one school nurse, North Carolina's traditional public school districts would need to hire about 500 more school nurses -- a 35% increase. It’s a rare ...