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District reports new nursing model, more health aids and a big rise in documented health visits
Summary
Health services supervisor Jill Irving outlined a staffing redesign that shifted to fewer registered nurses and more health room aides, increased training and simulation equipment, and a rise in documented health office visits from about 18,000 to 26,000.
Jill Irving, district health services supervisor, told the board the district implemented a nurse-plus-health-aid staffing model this school year and created a Health Aid Academy for training. "We implemented a district nurse and health aide kind of nursing staffing model," Irving said, describing the model's emphasis on RNs training and delegating while placing a health room aid in nearly every building. Irving said staffing changed from 02/2022 figures of about 10 registered nurses, two unofficial health room aides, one administrative assistant and five LPNs working in instructional-assistant roles, to…
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