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Parents and nurses urge board to preserve elementary nursing coverage as district weighs classified reductions
Summary
During public comment families and school nurses urged the board to retain full-time nursing at elementary schools; speakers described life-saving needs, limitations on EMS treatment and the risks of removing on-site school nurses.
Several members of the public used the meeting's public-comment period to press the board to preserve school nursing staff at the elementary level.
What speakers said
Allison Kawano, a parent, described a life-threatening seizure event that revealed to her the role elementary nurses play in keeping medically fragile students safe. "Elementary school age kids are often too young to self-carry or self-administer their life-saving medication," she said, urging the board to maintain nursing coverage.
Shelly (identified in the transcript as a longtime district nurse) told the board she has worked at Seattle Children's and in district nursing and…
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