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Sioux Falls district reports rising medical needs; nurses created 2,300+ individualized care plans last year
Summary
The district reported increases in students with diabetes, seizure disorders and life-threatening allergies and said school nurses provided tens of thousands of contacts and daily medical treatments across 38 buildings.
Molly Satter, representing district health services, told the Sioux Falls School District board on Jan. 27 that school nurses created more than 2,300 individualized care plans during the past year and provided a wide range of medical and behavioral-health support across the district’s 38 buildings.
Satter said the district has 32.5 full-time equivalent school nurses who completed 280 daily scheduled treatments such as catheterizations, tube feedings and respiratory treatments; those…
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