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Nurses report more chronic conditions and vaping-linked asthma rise at Craven County high schools
Summary
The district’s annual health report showed an increase in nurse encounters, a rise in certain chronic conditions with asthma, and improved injury trends; nurses and social workers described their roles and flagged mental-health and substance-use indicators.
Nurse leader (presenting the district’s required annual health report) told the Craven County Board of Education on Sept. 16 that school nurses and social workers are seeing increased chronic health needs and changes in patterns of injuries and clinic encounters.
The presenter said chronic conditions are concentrated in three categories—“the number 1 chronic health condition is asthma, and the second is ADD/ADHD, and the third is our autism population of students.” She said asthma diagnoses are appearing more often among high school students and linked that rise in part to vaping: “we are seeing data that showed an increase in asthma in our…
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