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Guam Department of Education backs bill to add school nurse seat to EMS Commission
Summary
The Guam Department of Education testified that adding the chief school nurse to the EMS Commission would align pediatric emergency planning and improve coordination between schools and EMS.
Juliette Kineni, Community Health and Nursing Service Administrator for the Guam Department of Education, told senators school nurses are often the first or only licensed medical providers on campus and that their commission membership would improve coordination, pediatric response protocols and potentially reduce unnecessary ambulance activations. "School nurses already function as first responders in GDOE schools, giving them a formal role on the EMS Commission would bring the system's planning body into alignment with where significant share of pediatric emergency actually begins," she said.
Kineni said there is no additional cost to appoint a school nursing administrator to the commission beyond the appointment itself and that GDOE has benefited from prior EMS Commission collaboration on policies such as automated external defibrillator placement and policy creation.
