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CUSD health director outlines nursing teams, screenings and Lions Club glasses partnership
Summary
Health Services Director Christine Bromley told the board that district nurses and assistants screen roughly 22,000 students each year, run state-mandated vision and hearing checks, and have begun a Lions Club partnership that provided 35 students with new glasses after a free clinic.
Christine Bromley, the district’s health service director, told the Chandler Unified School District governing board on Dec. 10 that nurses and health assistants handle a range of duties across 49 schools, from daily triage to mandated vision and hearing screenings.
“In our health service team, the backbone of the department is registered nurses,” Bromley said, describing three registered-nurse roles — health service coordinators for elementary schools, school nurses in secondary settings and two district rover nurses — plus health assistants who work under nurse delegation. She said state law requires vision and hearing screens and cited the statutes given to the board during her presentation (transcript reference: “ARS 36 8 9 9.1” and “ARS 36 8 9 9”).
Bromley provided staffing and workload figures: elementary health service coordinators (eight RNs) are each…
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