Jersey Jazzman: NJ School Nurses: A Data-Driven View

Jersey Jazzman: NJ School Nurses: A Data-Driven View

NJ School Nurses: A Data-Driven View

In my last post, I note that one in five U.S. public schools has no nursing coverage.

Given the COVID-19 outbreak, this is disturbing. School nurses are on the front lines of pediatric care, and a critical part of any response this nation will have to a pandemic. Every American child deserves access to a qualified, well-trained school nurse.

Ed Fuller at Penn State (as big an edu-data geek as yours truly) has tweeted out some graphs showing the distribution of nurses in Pennsylvania schools.

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Schools serving our children most in need of counselors & nurses are least likely to have access to them in PA. We must change that!

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8:37 AM - Mar 8, 2020

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What do we see? In PA, nursing coverage decreases when poverty rises, in elementary, middle, and high schools. In other words, at a time when the coronavirus threat is looming, Pennsylvania's neediest children are less likely to get the medical care they need at school.

Given all this, I thought it would be useful to take a look at how New Jersey's school CONTINUE READING: Jersey Jazzman: NJ School Nurses: A Data-Driven View