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School nurse warns high-school staffing gap creates safety risk
Summary
An unnamed school nurse told the Nantucket School Committee that the number of medically fragile students and current nursing coverage at the middle and high schools creates safety concerns; she urged adding at least a part-time RN or aide and said some medications may legally require a registered nurse.
An unnamed school nurse and parent told the Nantucket School Committee on Feb. 4 that current nursing coverage at the middle school and Nantucket High School creates a safety risk for medically fragile students.
The nurse said the combined middle- and high-school population is about 957 students and that Nantucket High School alone had 597 students as of that day. "If one of our nurses is out, that's one nurse, and that was me today, for 965 students, which is not…
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