In the age of the coronavirus, teaching kids how to wash their hands and cover their coughs is just the tip of the iceberg for school nurses.
, president of the United Federation of Public Nurses and Epidemiologists Local 436, which represents a portion of school nurses in NYC.
“The original reason why public health nurses were put into schools is because if there is going to be an epidemic of some sort or an infectious disease that can be community-acquired, it usually shows up in a child first,” Arroyo toldBut school districts are being pressured to recognize the importance of school nursesdisaster strikes.
had only one nurse on duty, once a week. After the strike, the teachers union successfully bargained for the district to work toward the AAP guidelines of one full-time nurse in every school. A union official toldthat the pandemic is making school nurses more needed than ever before, and taking steps like raising wages to hire and retain those nurses will still be important — long after the coronavirus has come and gone.
“During the crisis, everybody’s happy to see you,” Arroyo said. “They throw roses at you. And then once the crisis is over, and everything goes back to normal, suddenly they’re singing a different tune.”
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