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School Nurses Understaffed, Overwhelmed


Health & Wellness  (tags: health, Nurses, school, children, shortage, overworked, understaffed, illness, healthcare, protection, prevention )

Dee
- 108 days ago - cbsnews.com
(CBS) It's the beginning of a new school day in Ardmore, Oklahoma. But for school nurse Renita Dotson it's like every other day: busy.
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Dee C. (528)
Wednesday September 2, 2009, 9:13 pm
"Dotson is the only full-time nurse in a district with more than 3,000 students as CBS News Correspondent Don Teague reports.

On this morning she had two sick kids in her middle school office eve before the first bell rang. She spent the rest of the day treating and monitoring kids at six other schools across the city.

"We see them first and that's medical. We're not doctors but we do the best we can with what we have," she said."

Read more..see video at site..
 

Chaz Gaily Berlusconi (267)
Thursday September 3, 2009, 10:34 am
It is so sad that there are less people joining this career path, thus making it evre so harder for nurses to cope with the overload...
 

Aletta Kraan (31)
Thursday September 3, 2009, 6:40 pm
Noted , thanks !
 
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