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[quote=Anonymous]This is such a penny wise, pound foolish effort.  The district will surely end up in lawsuits when children do not receive the care that they required and then all the money that could've been spent paying to have licensed nurses on staff will be paid to lawyers instead.   So all schools, regardless of enrollment, will only get 20 hours of a clinician unless the school proves they have needy or sick enough kids to warrant more?  20 hours regardless if it's high school or elementary?   Elementary school children are constantly needing to go to the nurse. They have recess for goodness sake. They get hurt. They get lice. They get sick. They throw up in class.  They use scissors and cut themselves.  And where is the national nursing Association on issues like this? As far as I can tell the nurse's job is being taken on by non-clinicians which in my book should not be permitted and their advocacy group should be stepping up.

The press release or whatever it is they issued at the end of the day on Friday says that the goal is to have better outcomes. I will attend the Dunbar meeting and will ask  them to delineate the various outcome goals they will be tracking.

This whole thing smells like an effort to shortchange our kids. Again. [/quote]

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