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Boone County school nurses urge board to preserve full-time health clerks amid staffing cuts
Summary
Several Boone County Schools nurses told the board during public comment that cuts to health clerk hours threaten student safety and the ability to manage chronic medical needs such as diabetes and daily medications.
Several Boone County Schools nurses told the school board during the meeting’s public-comment period that proposed staffing cuts that reduce health clerks to part time will threaten student safety and the district’s ability to manage chronic medical needs.
At the microphone, Amy Schroeder, an RN with the district for 11 years, said her building logged 12,491 first-aid visits last year — an average of about 70 per day — and described the health clerk as the school’s primary health-care provider when a nurse is not present. “At a minimum, we will see one diabetic child six times in a day,” Schroeder said. “If their blood sugar drops too low, it becomes a potential medical emergency.”
The nurses said health clerks…
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